Anakpawis Partylist Rep. Rafael Mariano said in a press release from his office  that while the Aquino administration claims to pursue all-out efforts against the worst forms of contractualization, the Department of Labor and Employment's implemented Department Order  18-A series of 2011,  just strengthened national policies legalizing labor contractualization.

The  department order blatantly violates the workers’ right to security of tenure by further promoting and even institutionalizing contractual and flexible work arrangements, Mariano said.

“DOLE D.O. 18-A will only ensure that contractual work will become the 'permanent' employment status of Filipino workers,” said Mariano.“This order undermines the workers right to job security and other inherent labor rights supposedly protected by the Constitution and the Labor Code,”  Mariano said.

 The labor department assumes that if employers abide by the rules provided in the D.O. 18-A, labor contractualization will be more humane and acceptable. But workers are all the more determined to oppose the legalized contractualization promoted by the Aquino government, Mariano said.

Contractual and flexible employment in any form, puts workers in a very vulnerable situation and violates their inherent rights as workers, he also said.

Mariano authored House Bill 5110 or an Act Strengthening the Workers Right to Security of Tenure, amending for the purpose Article 106 of the Labor Code that prohibits all forms of contractual labor, the press release  said.*

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