Workers hit DOLE U-turn on ‘endo’

By William Depasupil, TMT

Nov 23, 2016 5:47 pm

A showdown between organized labor and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has seemed to become inevitable because of their contrasting stands on the issue of contractual employment, or endo (end of contract).

Under endo, workers are hired for only five months and fired after five months, mainly for employers to skip regularizing them.

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