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| Louie Logarta |
Democratic Independent Workers Association (DIWA) party-list Rep. Amy Legaspi has a gem of a bill in the pipeline that would conceivably alleviate the financial woes plaguing millions of workers all over the country, a great majority of whom have to cope with hand-to-mouth existence on a daily basis, who are continually being exploited by big business.
Entitled “The Security of Tenure Act of 2010,” Legaspi’s proposed bill, should it be passed by Congress, is going to prohibit the pernicious practice being resorted to by several large corporations in hiring rank-and-file level “contractual employees” in order to circumvent existing labor laws so that they could maintain their impressive profits.
Explaining the need for it to be passed into law, Legaspi said that many of the nation’s large business firms, who can be found in the Top 100 list compiled by the respected Forbes Asia magazine, have for the longest time been subverting workers’ rights to full employment opportunities as provided in the Constitution and the Labor Code through the accepted practice commonly referred to as “contractualization.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101007com4.html
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