DOLE has been continuing in reaching a settlement and issued a Department Order

(174) in which thousands of short-term hires were freed from their non-regular status
since its issuance. On the other hand, the President in attaining his campaign promise to
end contractualization, signed an Executive Order (51) that prohibits illegal labor
contracting but still allows some forms of contractualization to which got the labor groups
dismayed and some members of the community worried because it is not what they had
hoped for. In line with this, it has been criticized that the new EO does not kill “endo”
because it is covered by law.

Despite the gradual progress shown to the people affected, major labor unions
continue to raged and joined forces in phasing out contractualization for the fact that
almost all the candidates promised to bring an end to the days of “endo”, but it seems
like it took a backseat in the priorities for the past government officials even for the
present one.

With the growing and continuing debate, and sincere efforts of the government
about putting an end to contractualization, this research takes a look at the current state
of the long overdue problem if unresolved would negatively affect and exploit workers
under labor-only contracting companies. How does endo adversely affect Filipinos? Does
the Labor Code of the Philippines sufficiently safeguarded the rights of workers to security
of tenure?