The Department of Labor and Employment and labor groups have thrown full support for the approval of the Security of Tenure bill now pending before the Senate.
Labor Assistant Secretary Joji Aragon said the department would provide all the necessary technical assistance to the senators as the Senate hammers out its version of the job security measure.
Senator Joel Villanueva, labor committee chairman, sponsored Senate Bill 1826 or the “Act strengthening the workers right to security of tenure” now subject to plenary interpellation.
Subject to the plenary debates in the Senate is SB 1826, which aims to prohibit illegal and unjust forms of contractualization and tightens the noose further against valid or allowable contracting.
The bill was certified as an urgent measure by the President.
“We demand that SB 1826 is put into final consideration before the Senate takes a break this week and legislators get swallowed by the October electoral fest,” said Nagkaisa spokesman and Partido Manggagawa chairperson Renato Magtubo said.
Magtubo said the bill could be put into final vote now by the Senate as opposition to it, if there’s any, stand on weak and overly discussed arguments during the last two decades.
