No change in new contractualization order, TUCP says

A MAJOR labor union on Thursday said that the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) Department Order (DO) 174, which spelled out the rights of employers and employees in a contractual hiring arrangement, will perpetuate contractualization and the poverty and inequality caused by it.

“Trumpeted by the DoLE as the DO that will end contractualization, it essentially repeats the already long existing policies created through previous tripartite Department Orders. In short, the DO 174 does not provide anything new,” the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP)said in a statement on Monday.

“It is clear that the new DO only prohibits labor- only contracting and the cabo system. Both have been long prohibited,” the TUCP added.

The TUCP reiterated it “remains steadfast in its stand against contractualization,” which it claims does not provide security of tenure nor allow contractual employees to have savings for emergencies.

“The TUCP appeals to President [ Rodrigo R.] Duterte to issue an Executive Order to prohibit all forms of contractualization nad fixed-term employment and to over-rule the recently issued DO 174,” it said. —