Only 60,000 contractuals regularized – official

A year after President Rodrigo Duterte promised to stamp out end-of-contract or endo employment, only 60,000 of the more than 2,000,000 contractual employees were regularized, according to an official of the Labor department.

Undersecretary for Labor Relations Joel Maglunsod, a former representative of Anakpawis party-list, on Tuesday said the process to regularization is tedious and slow, adding that there are 630,000 contracting agencies but only 230 labor inspectors.