THE anticipated meeting between President Rodrigo Duterte and labor leaders for the supposed signing of an executive order (EO) against the labor contracting scheme on Monday, April 16, was postponed for the third time amid strong objections from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

The labor sector proposed the EO aimed at ending the decades old problem on illegal work contracting and providing security of tenure to some 30 million contractual workers around the country.

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