THE PHILIP
MONDAY I I\UGUST 5' 2OI9
Vetoed 'endo' bill refiled,in House
By EDU PUNAY
The Security of Tenure (SOT) bill
vetoed by President Duterte more
than a w6ek ago has been refiled at
the House of Representatives.
House Fril1,3957, the House coun-
terpart of the measure more popularly
knbwn as'anti-endo' btll was refiled
by deputy speaker and Cibac party-list
("". tadi" ' in our business and labor sectors, and
fuilut.t"nu last week.
'Th" tt is a pet bill of the
"usure
sory Sen. ]oel Villanueva
lawmaker's
who also promptly refiled the Senate
version of the bill last week.
"The battle for decades of the
working class to be freed from eco-
nomic injustice was delaYed but we
will not stop until social iustice is
served and ihe rights of {ie people
are honorcdi' the preacher-furned
politician said, vowiirg to s{rpport the
bill pursued by their party-litl grouP
despite the setback.
'ilnthe narne of fairness and order
most of all, for the sake of our Filipino
laborers who have been constantlY
living in fear of finding not just a
new job but new means to si.rPPort
t\
PAg*i \f "
their families once their (supposedly
illegal) contract ends, the passage
of this bill is eamestly sought " the
House official added.
Villanueva also dispelled PerceP-"
tion that the bill is anti-employer or
anti-conhactualization, saying it does
not seek to end legal contractualtz,a'
tionbut instead simply aims to ensule
that all parties involved in labor con-
tracts aie duly protected by the law.
He explai"ia that th6 measure
would allow industrr tripartite colrn-
cils to determine the tcina bf jobs which
are directly related to one's principal
business and would provide,averures
for the labor sector to express their con-
cems about conkacting iertain jobs ana
the employers to present the realities of
their businesses' operations.
H.F3367 seeks to protect laborers
from labor-only contracting, which
refers to cases #h"re the jobtontrac-
tor merelv supplies wbrkers to a
contractee whbie the workers suP-
nlied bv the contractor perform iobs
ttirectl'i related to the^contraciee's
princiial business, and where the
iob .ohtractor does not control the
workers deployed to the contractee.