{"id":195564,"date":"2018-12-28T05:12:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T10:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=195564"},"modified":"2018-12-28T05:12:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T10:12:12","slug":"more-than-400k-workers-regularized-under-duterte-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/28\/more-than-400k-workers-regularized-under-duterte-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 400K workers regularized under Duterte admin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his speech during the 85th anniversary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) at The Forum of the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) Grounds in Pasay City on December 6, 2018. RICHARD MADELO\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s issuance of an executive order protecting the right of the workers to security of tenure has resulted in the regularization of over 411,000 contractual employees, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrue to his word, our President succeeded in the regularization of almost 500,000 contractuals. This is unprecedented,\u201d DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III said in a Palace press briefing.<\/p>\n

Bello said that 70 percent of the 411,000 employees became regular due to initiatives of their respective employers while 30 percent were regularized in compliance with EO No. 51 signed by Duterte this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAng<\/em>\u00a0major accomplishment\u00a0ng<\/em>\u00a0Duterte administration\u00a0ay nandoon sa<\/em>\u00a0Department of Labor and Employment (The major accomplishment of the Duterte administration is in the Department of Labor and Employment),\u201d Bello said.<\/p>\n

Aside from EO 51, Bello also cited the launching of Overseas Filipino Bank, settlement of various claims of several laborers, and creation of around 826,000 jobs for Filipinos this year.<\/p>\n

Bello also announced that the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) has expressed commitment to regularize all their employees.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we received that communication, I was surprised. This is a big development in the labor atmosphere because no less than the employers are offering to regularize all their employees and they\u2019re starting with 40 percent of their employees. This is really unexpected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bello said Duterte has made major accomplishments in protecting the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), leading to the signing of memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Kuwaiti government.<\/p>\n

The MOU signing happened after Duterte declared a total deployment of OFWs in Kuwait following the murder of Filipina Joanna Demafeliz, who body was discovered inside a freezer in an apartment of her employers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time that they agreed to enter into a bilateral agreement between their country and our country. So, we have an MOU which provides for the protection \u2013 very sufficient, very effective protection of workers,\u201d Bello said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, under that MOU, our workers are entitled to hold their only means of communication to the outside world, their cellphones. And they cannot be taken by the employers without their consent,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Bello said the Duterte administration has also adjusted the minimum wage not only in Metro Manila but all throughout the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last of course was in Metro Manila, we had an increase of PHP25,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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