Do not allow labor exploitation of students

TODAY we are obliged to pause our focus on the growing political carnival in the country to address a frankly appalling idea proposed in next year’s General Appropriations Act.

In budget hearings in the House of Representatives last Friday, legislators turned their attention to a provision in the budget for state universities and colleges (SUCs) that authorizes the schools to use the voluntary services of their students in the “construction or repair of buildings and the fabrication or repair of buildings and the fabrication or repair of equipment subject to the payment of P25 per hour but not to exceed four hours a day.”