Senate rejects 2-year probationary period

The proposed legislation prolonging the six-month probationary period of employees to two years won’t see the light of day in the Senate, leaders of the upper chamber declared on Monday. “I will oppose its passage. If the House passes it, consider it DOA (dead on arrival) in the Senate,” Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said in a Viber message. Drilon said House Bill No. 4802, authored by Probinsyano Ako party list Rep. Jose Singson Jr., was not only “unjustified,” but also “unreasonable.” Sen. Joel Villanueva, the Senate labor committee chair, said the measure would undermine the workers’ right to job security, which the legislators had been trying to protect with the passage of a measure prohibiting contractualization.