GERARDO MAXIMO FRANCISCO
A recent article in this column entitled “Fixing fixed-term contracts” (The Manila Times, May 10, 2018) discussed the illegalization of fixed-term employment contracts as one way that House Bill No. 6908 (An Act Strengthening the Security of Tenure of Workers, Amending for the Purpose Presidential Decree No. 442, as amended, otherwise known as the “Labor Code”) proposes to end the pernicious practice and problem of “endo” (end-of-contract). The article concluded that altogether banning fixed-term employment contracts to fix the endo problem was like “curing a headache by lopping off the head.”