MANILA, Philippines — Labor group Partido Manggagawa (PM) has assailed employers for calling on President Duterte to veto the security of tenure bill. Magtubo made the statement in reaction to a report that local and foreign business groups have sent a letter dated July 1 to Duterte to prevent the bill from becoming a law. The employers claimed that the objective of the bill is already contained in Executive Order 51 and Department of Labor and Employment’s Department Order 174. A presidential veto will just be another betrayal of his promise to workers,” he said. He maintained that “contrary to the wild claim of employers that the security of tenure bill is superfluous because endo (end of contract) has already been ended with DO 173 and EO 51, numerous loopholes allow the proliferation of contractual workers everywhere.”“ The security of tenure bill will not end endo and will not stop contractualization because it is a weak version of the proposed law,” he added.

Source: Philippine Star July 06, 2019 16:00 UTC