A year after President Rodrigo Duterte promised to stamp out contractualization, only 60,000 of the more than 2 million known contractual employees have been regularized, an official of the Department of Labor and Employment said on Tuesday.
Joel Maglungsod, undersecretary for labor relations and a former representative of Anakpawis party list, blamed the low conversion to the “tedious and slow” process for regularization, saying there are 630,000 contracting agencies but only 230 labor inspectors.
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