THE influential Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has called on President Rodrigo Duterte to take the moral high ground of defending Filipino workers against the exploitative and illegal end-of-contract and other labor contractualization practices of big businesses.

CBCP president and Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas made the appeal in a pastoral letter amid conflict between the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and labor groups on the issue of contractualization, which the President wanted to abolish.

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