Political will and ‘endo’
Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III signed on March 16 Department Order (DO) 174, or the Rules Implementing Articles 106-109 of the Labor Code, after months of consultations with both labor and management, pursuant to the promise of President Duterte to end illegal contracting and endo. The new DO supersedes the much-assailed DO 18-A, which was oftentimes circumvented to allow various forms of contractual arrangements and end-of-contract schemes.
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