An employers group urged lawmarkers to train their sights on measures that would mitigate the impact of the ongoing crisis – especially in terms of saving business and jobs – instead of pursuing bills that would deny enterprises the needed flexibility in the employment and deployment of their workforce.
Employers Confederation of the Philippines (Ecop) President Sergip Ortiz-Luis Jr. issued the statement in the wake of an unnumbered substitute bill pending in Congress which seeks to amend the core provision of the Labor Code on contracting.
Under said bill which was approved by the House Committee on labor and employment, it would be unlawful for any employer to engage a labor-only contractor or to contract out services or functions being performed by members of, or positions covered by, the bargaining unit and/or regular rank-and-file and supervisory employees.
Ortiz-Luis questioned such imposition, arguing that contracting out the performance of work by the employer or principal to a legitimate job contractor is a “constitutional right of the employer, so long as it is done in good faith, based in the exigencies of business an dnot intended to bust the union.”
The bill furthermore imposes restrictions such as: total number of lawful casual employment and contractual employment cannot exceed 20 percent of the total workforce, including the casual and contractual employees; project and extra employees are entitled to resume their employment in the same or similar position upon the next project or occasion for extra employment, as the case may be; provided that during the time that their services are not actually availed of, they shall be considered on authorized leave without pay; and no employer shall hire any employee for a fixed period only except those hired as project and extras where appropriate. Thus, any stipulation fixing a period of employment shall be void; probationary employment shall not exceed six months and shall apply to all kinds of employment, including teaching personnel in all educational institutions. –Daily Tribune
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International Equal Pay Day
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more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
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against serious violations of protocols of
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September –
5 Sept – Intl Day of Charity
7 Sept – Intl Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
8 Sept – International Literacy Day
12 Sept – United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
15 Sept – International Day of Democracy
16 Sept – International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
17 Sept – World Patient Safety Day
18 Sept – International Equal Pay Day
21 Sept – International Day of Peace
26 Sept – International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
27 Sept – World Tourism Day
28 Sept – International Day for Universal Access to Information
29 Sept – International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
30 Sept – World Maritime Day
Monthly Observances:
Health, Safety and Sanitation Month
National Clean-up Month
Civil Service Month
National Peace Consciousness Month
Social Security Month
Rule of Law Month
National Teachers’ Month (Sept 5-Oct 4)
Weekly Observances:
Sept 17 – 23:
World Clean and Green Week
Week 2: Education Week
Week 4: Medicine Week
Last Week: National Family Week
Daily Observances:
Third Saturday:
International Coastal Clean-up Day
Third Monday: World Health Day
Last Friday: National Maritime Day
Sept 8: National Literacy Day
Sept 15: Philippine Medicine Day
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