“35M contractuals hope for end to ‘endo’”, 25 Apr 2016

Almost 35 million contractual workers could be freed from a labor contract system that is good only for 5 months whoever wins the presidential elections on May 9.

The next President ridding labor of contractualization was welcomed…by the workers’ coalition Nagkaisa led by the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP)…

Contractualization or “endo” (end of contract) or “555” is a work arrangement whereby workers are only hired for only about 5 months without security of tenure, monetary, non-monetary and social protection benefits.

The law requires regularization or termination of those employed for 6 months.

All the five candidates for President…promised to solve the labor problem…