Duterte to sign new order on ‘endo’

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has directed labor groups to draft an executive order that will end contractualization.

The EO will replace the department order issued by Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd in March that was condemned by labor groups for perpetuating contractualization or “endo”, the practice of hiring employees for six months and firing them before their contracts end so that they will not be hired as regular workers.