DEPARTMENT Order 30 or DO 30, the new implementing guidelines crafted by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on work contracting, is a “grand deception” to make President Rodrigo Duterte believe that it is compliant with his campaign promise that contractualization must be stopped, according to organized labor groups.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the country’s largest and one of oldest labor federations, pointed out on Friday that DO 30 will instead perpetuate contractualization and its related forms such as end of contract or “endo” and “555.”

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