Good News | Endo Bill Awaits President Duterte’s Signature

The Endo bill is now being sent to the Malacañang for President Duterte’s signature.

The Endo bill is planning on changing the current Labor Code and stop abuses from contractualization (endo).





This came after the House of Representatives on Tuesday, May 29, had decided to adopt the provisions included in the Senate Bill 1826 or the “Act Strengthening Workers’ Right to Security of Tenure,” which the Philippine senators approved on third and final reading on Wednesday, May 22.

As the House of Representatives adopts the Senate version on Tuesday, May 29, 2019, there will be no need for the bill to go through the bicameral conference committee. Thus, the “endo bill” will be directly sent to the Malacañang to await President Duterte’s signature.

The bill emphasizes the ban on labor-only contracting and clears any uncertainties in the existing laws that had made it possible for employers to circumvent the provision.

According to the bill, labor-only contracting exists when the job contractor merely supplies, recruits and supplies workforces to a conractee, the workforce provided to the contractee do tasks that are enumerated by the industry to be directly related to the main business of the contractee, and the contractee can directly control and supervise the workers supplied by the contractor.





The “endo bill” also classifies workers under 4 classification

Regular
Probationary
Project
Seasonal.

The bill also explains that project and seasonal workers have similar rights as regular employees which includes regular employee benefits like payment of minimum wage and social protection benefits.

It had been the campaign promise of President Duterte to end contractualization. He had previously signed an executive order on contractualization but labor groups and progressive lawmakers had previously judged the executive order as “having no effect” in destroying endo in the country.





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