Ben D. Kritz
ONE of the very few issues that all five of the presidential candidates agree on is that the practice of labor contractualization must be abolished, a plan that has made some business owners and executives very nervous. Government regulation of contractualization is a critical issue, particularly in an employment market that is as tenuous as the Philippines’, but as is usually the case with important public policy questions, advocates on both sides have reduced their arguments to a collection of sound bites riddled with inaccuracies, half-truths, and a few instances of outright dishonesty.