Over 20,000 workers in Central Visayas were regularized by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) as part of its ongoing campaign against illegal contractualization.
This number is already 95.54 percent of the 21,000 target number of workers to be regularized this year by the DOLE Region 7.
“As of June 14, 2018, the region has tallied a total of 20,065 workers regularized voluntarily by more than 200 establishments engaged either in bilateral or trilateral employment arrangements,”DOLE-Region 7 Regional Director Alvin M. Villamor was quoted in a statement as saying.
Villamor said the inspected firms were required to submit appointment papers of their regularized workers; enrollment of the said workers in their payroll; and proof of remittance for Social Security System, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG fund.
Villamor attributed the increase of regularized workers in their jurisdiction to their “intensified workplace inspection in industries with large concentration of contractual employment.”