{"id":224564,"date":"2019-07-26T12:59:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=224564"},"modified":"2019-07-26T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:59:44","slug":"senate-to-prioritize-security-of-tenure-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/26\/senate-to-prioritize-security-of-tenure-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate to prioritize Security of Tenure bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_202808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202808\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/51137460_2260205657337036_3838107815088488448_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-202808\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/51137460_2260205657337036_3838107815088488448_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/51137460_2260205657337036_3838107815088488448_n-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/51137460_2260205657337036_3838107815088488448_n-1-768x486.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-202808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sotto, however, said he was \u201ccrestfallen\u201d over President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s decision to veto the measure. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senateph\/photos\/a.815377408486542\/2260205650670370\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senateph\/\">Senate of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Friday said they would refile and prioritize the Security of Tenure bill in the 18th Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Sotto, however, said he was \u201ccrestfallen\u201d over President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s decision to veto the measure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m crestfallen but that&#8217;s how democracy works. And Congress being dynamic, can refile and repass the bill,&#8221; Sotto told reporters in a text message.<\/p>\n<p>The measure aims to prohibit all illegal employment schemes and subcontracting of Filipino workers.<\/p>\n<p>In his veto message, Duterte assured that he still stands by his firm commitment to protect the workers\u2019 right to security of tenure by eradicating all forms of abusive employment practices.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte, however, noted that the bill \u201cunduly\u201d broadens the scope and definition of prohibited labor-only contracting, effectively prescribing forms of contractualization that are not particularly unfavorable to the employees involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, while labor-only contracting must be prohibited, legitimate job-contracting should be allowed, provided that the contractor is well capitalized, has sufficient investments, and affords its employees all the benefits provided for under the labor laws,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusinesses should be allowed to determine whether they should outsource certain activities or not, especially when job-contracting will result in economy and efficiency in their operations, with no detriment to the workers regardless of whether this is directly related to their business,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Friday said they would refile and prioritize the Security of Tenure bill in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":202808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224566,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224564\/revisions\/224566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}