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Unions Push For Passage of Bill Banning Endo' Before Congress Adjourns
Unions Push For Passage of Bill Banning Endo' Before Congress Adjourns
On Tuesday — the eve of Labor Day — the heads of the biggest unions jointly
asked the legislators to pass the law that will ensure the security of tenure of
workers nationwide.
The SoT Bill is currently in the amendment stage at the Senate. It was
certified as urgent last year by President Rodrigo R. Duterte.
The bill hopes to give workers a clear pathway to job security by doing away
with practices like “endo,” the termination of employment before the sixth
month, which denies workers the benefits and protections of permanent
employee status.
“We still have an opportunity from May 20 to June 7. Nine days! That’s why
we’re asking the senators to issue the amendments because we are running
out of time. It has been going on since the 12th Congress. It’s already the
17th Congress… we are really pushing for this passage. Hopefully when
(Congress) adjourns on May 20, amendments will already be submitted,”
TUCP President Raymond C. Mendoza told reporters in a briefing Tuesday.
According to Section 288 of the Labor Code, violators “shall be punished with
a fine of not less than One Thousand Pesos (P1,000.00) nor more than Ten
Thousand Pesos (P10,000.00).”
“It will go down as a legacy of failure and one of the greatest unfulfilled
promises of President Rodrigo Duterte,” the KMU chairperson said. — Gillian
M. Cortez