ILOILO CITY -- A total of 1,901 private workers from Western Visayas have earned tenure due to the end contractualization (endo) campaign of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
DOLE 6 Regional Director Johnson Cañete said that 820 of these workers were regularized by virtue of the order of the regional director. The rest were voluntarily regularized by their employers. The figure covers the period from January to August this year.
During visits of their labor law compliant officers to a particular company, Cañete said they study the organizational structure including positions that can be contracted out and those that can be given tenure.
After the assessment, those with violations are given the chance to comply with the labor standards. If companies fail after a period of time, they will be called through a mandatory conference. Thereafter, an order will be issued wherein companies are bound to comply, he explained.
He added that legitimate contracting is allowed if workers do not perform core functions of the company such as security guards and janitorial services. “We look forward that voluntarily on their part, these companies will regularize,” he said.
He also stressed that DOLE does not penalize companies because they are the ones providing employment. Instead, they are only called to “comply with labor standards.”
Meantime, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III announced that DOLE will intensify the campaign against contractualization as soon as they train enough labor law compliant officers (LLCOs). He revealed that DOLE has only more than 500 inspectors who are supposed to cover 900,000 business establishments nationwide.
President Rodrigo Duterte, he said, has already approved additional 200 LLCOs though he requested for 2,500.
He said that they have requested management association and labor groups to nominate volunteers who can be trained and deputized as labor inspectors to assist LLCOs.
Bello was here Thursday for the Charter Day job fair of Iloilo City. (PNA)
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