THE Department of Labor and Employment said it would ban contractors and subcontractors from all government sponsored job fairs nationwide that practice contracting and subcontracting of workers, as part of the government’s effort to abolish contractualization or endo system.
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said that job fairs conducted by the Department will no longer be open to establishments which are practicing contracting and subcontracting employment.
“This is part of our efforts to reduce the number of establishments practicing ‘endo’ and labor-only contracting by 2016 and abolishing it by 2017,” the labor chief said.
Bello described contractualization and ‘endo’ practices as illegal where a worker is employed on a limited duration only or on a fixed short period for purposes of circumventing workers’ rights to security of tenure, self-organization and collective bargaining, labor standards, and other basic workers’ rights.
“Labor-only contracting exists if the contractor or subcontractor does not have substantial capital or investment in the form of tools, equipment, machineries, work premises, among others, and the workers recruited are performing activities that are directly related to the principal business of the employer,” he said.
