{"id":162304,"date":"2018-05-01T03:57:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T07:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=162304"},"modified":"2018-05-01T03:57:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T07:57:13","slug":"duterte-signs-eo-on-endo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/01\/duterte-signs-eo-on-endo\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte signs EO on endo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: As the country celebrates its 116th Labor Day, President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, May 1, signed an executive order (EO) that bans illegal contracting and sub-contracting in the Philippines. (RENE LUMAWAG\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the country celebrates its 116th<\/sup> Labor Day, President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, May 1, signed an executive order (EO) that bans illegal contracting and sub-contracting in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

The EO was signed by Duterte at the beginning of his speech during a Labor Day event in Cebu City. Malaca\u00f1ang has yet to release a copy of the order.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than a century has passed since the very first Labor Day was celebrated and yet the struggle for a better life our beloved workers continue. I assure you that this government will never cease to provide the Filipino worker with full, dignified, and meaningful employment,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

Duterte, who vowed during the campaign to stop \u201cendo\u201d or end of contract, stressed that these workers \u201cdeserve no less than decent and comfortable life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The EO also prohibits the \u201cundertaking to circumvent the workers\u2019 right to security of tenure.\u201d This means that employers are not allowed to dismiss or remove workers \u201cwithout just and authorized cause and observance of procedural due process constituent with the labor code as amended.”<\/p>\n

“[I hope] that with all I can do legally, there will be an impact on your complaint on security of tenure,” Duterte said.<\/p>\n

The President also ordered the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to submit a list of companies suspected to be engaging in illegal labor contracting.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour days are numbered. I have warned you before and I have warned you again. Stop \u2018endo\u2019 and illegal contracting. I will see to it that the laws are strongly enforced,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

Duterte also urged Congress to revisit and revise the \u201coutdated\u201d Labor Code as \u201can executive order is not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can only do so much and a mere executive order is not enough because you have to change or modify or abrogate some of the provisions\u2026 I cannot be a legislator, it is not allowed. I can only implement (the laws),\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on April 19 said that issuing an EO on endo would be pointless if not enforced strictly.<\/p>\n

\u201cMabigat lang ang<\/em> issue ng<\/em> penalty\u00a0(The issue of penalty is grave) which could not be provided in the proposed EO because only Congress can propose penalty,\u201d Bello said.<\/p>\n

Malaca\u00f1ang also sides with Bello\u2019s remark, saying that \u201can EO can only do so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

But while Bello and Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, Jr. confirmed that the President had other plans other than signing an EO on endo, the Palace\u2019s latest stand made the previous confirmation unclear.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can confirm [that] there might be an EO that may or may not be signed depending on their meeting tonight,\u201d Roque said yesterday, April 30.<\/p>\n

The EO was supposed to be signed by Duterte as early as April 16 after it was postponed last March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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