AS A presidential candidate, Rodrigo Duterte had strong views about “contractualisation” and “endo”—big firms’ habit of hiring employees indirectly, via temping agencies, often on renewable five-month contracts. He agreed with labour activists that corporate giants use these practices to avoid providing health care and other benefits, and said they should be banned. Indeed, he promised to lean on Congress to ban contractualisation in the first week of his presidency. “Pay the benefits,” he growled on the campaign trail. “Don’t wait for me to catch you because I will be unforgiving. You will not only lose your money, you will lose your pants.”
Over a year into Mr Duterte’s term, employers remain clothed. In March Silvestre Bello, Mr Duterte’s labour secretary, signed an order that sets stricter guidelines about when firms can hire temporary workers through employment agencies. But banning third-party hiring...Continue reading
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