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KMU wants total ban on hiring employees by third-party agencies


The Philippines should push for an exclusive direct-hiring protocol and totally ban companies from contracting and sub-contracting labor via recruitment agencies as the practice encourages contractualization, Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) said Wednesday.

In an interview on GMA News’ “News to Go,” KMU Secretary General Jerome Adonis said the government should get rid of the middlemen or the agencies, as they are being made as an excuse as to why employees are not being regularized.

“Gusto namin wala nang agency kasi under the Labor Code naman, pwede mag-direct hire ang mga kompanya ng mga empleyado. Puwede namang subukan within six months “yung mga manggagawa at ‘pag hindi pumasa, sinasabi nga nila batay sa evaluation, puwedeng palitan,” he said.

Adonis noted companies hire employees from agencies in order to be excused from paying the necessary wages and benefits.

“Hindi sila nakakatanggap na tinatakda ng rehiyon na pasweldo. Anytime puwede sila tanggalin so hindi nila mae-enjoy ang mga benepisyo ng mga manggagawa dahil nasa agency,” he said.

Among the industries that hire employees through agencies are security and janitorial services—occupations that Adonis said should be directly hired by the companies.

“Wala nang middleman lahat. Wala dapat nadidiscriminate na manggagawa,” he said.

President Rodrigo Duterte said during his Labor Day speech that he signed an executive order prohibiting illegal contracting or subcontracting in the Philippines.

Labor groups such as Partido Manggagawa and the Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, however, said this does not totally prohibit labor contracting services. —Jon Viktor Cabuenas/VDS, GMA News
 

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