The signing of the Executive Order No. 51 last May,
by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is now reaping benefits for the Filipino
people.
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)
said that the issuance of the EO No.51 which gives protection to
the right of the workers to security of tenure has resulted in the
unprecedented regularization of over 411,000 contractual employees.
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“True to his word, our President succeeded in
the regularization of almost 500,000 contractuals. This is unprecedented,” DOLE
Secretary Silvestre Bello III said.
The Labor Secretary gave a breakdown stating
that 70% of the 411,000 employees became regular due to the initiatives of the
employers while 30% were regularized in compliance with EO No. 51 signed by
Duterte last May.
“Ang major accomplishment ng Duterte
administration ay nandoon sa Department of Labor and Employment (The major
accomplishment of the Duterte administration is in the Department of Labor and
Employment),” Sec. Bello said.
Aside from EO 51. The Labor secretary also took
note of the launching of Overseas Filipino Bank, settlement of various claims
of several laborers, and creation of around 826,000 jobs for Filipinos this
year.
The Employers Confederation of the Philippines
(ECOP) has made known their expressed commitment to regularize all of
their employees.
“When we received that communication, I was
surprised. This is a big development in the labor atmosphere because no less
than the employers are offering to regularize all their employees and they’re
starting with 40 percent of their employees. This is really unexpected,” he
said.
Bello cites the signing
of memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Kuwaiti government as another
major accomplishment of Duterte in protecting the overseas Filipino workers
(OFW).
“This is the first time that they agreed to enter
into a bilateral agreement between their country and our country. So, we have
an MOU which provides for the protection – very sufficient, very effective
protection of workers,” the DOLE Secretary said.
“Now, under that MOU, our workers are entitled to
hold their only means of communication to the outside world, their cellphones.
And they cannot be taken by the employers without their consent,” Bello added.
The DOLE Secretary also took note the increase of
the amount of minimum wage done by this administration not only in Metro Manila
but throughout the regions.
“The last of course was in Metro
Manila, we had an increase of PHP25,” Bello said.
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