Employers: Contractualization should not be equated with ‘endo’

EMPLOYERS are pushing for a stricter enforcement of the rules prohibiting the end of contract (endo) system instead of abolishing contractualization which they said makes important contributions to job creation.

“What is needed, to maintain the balance between management and employee interests is not the termination or abrogation of contractualization but the stricter enforcement of the provisions of DO [Department Order] 18-A prohibiting endo and other forms of labor-only contracting arrangements,” Rene Soriano, the honorary president of the Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP), said over the weekend.