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Over 10,000 Central Luzon workers regularized in 2016

One of the promises that President Rodrigo Duterte made upon assuming office was to solve unemployment, which includes putting an end to the problem of contractualization and labor-only contracting (LOC).

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III earlier announced that his office is bent on reducing contractualization such practices.
Records from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) showed over 10,000 workers have been regularized in Central Luzon under the administration of President Duterte.

DOLE confirmed that 10,212 contractual workers were regularized by 92 complying establishments.

The DOLE regional office meanwhile wants 235 firms all over the region to undergo consultation and assessment to determine the existence of contractualization, end of contract or “endo” and LOC practices.

DOLE’s region-wide consultations and assessments would include various industries operating inside and outside of the region’s free port and economic zones.

Initially, at least around 2,500 workers have already been voluntarily regularized by 20 firms after the regional/field offices held 22 consultations attended by 1,444 company representatives from 648 establishments/principals/contractors region wide, according to DOLE.

3,939 were voluntarily regularized by 54 firms following an assessment visit by the LLCOs at plant-level.

The remaining 6,580 workers were voluntarily regularized through conferences at the Technical Support and Services Division for Labor Relations and Labor Standards of the regional office.

“We are hoping that other establishments, which have yet to be consulted and assessed, will also realize the benefits of regularizing their workers, necessary in their day to day operations, to be regularized as well,” Bello said, as quoted by Manila Bulletin.

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