Workers’ groups…questioned the labor department’s new order banning labor-only contracting, charging that it has failed to stop the unfair practice of contractualization.

The Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research pointed out that the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) new rules did not heed demands to end the practice of hiring workers and letting them go before they reach six months at work, which would automatically make them  regular employees entitled to full benefits under the law.

Department Order (DO)  No. 174 “still encourages short-term contracts and violate job security in the guise of legal contractualization,” said Rochelle Poras, the institute’s executive director…

…[L]abor groups Kilusang Mayo Uno and the Partido Manggagawa protested the order as “pro-contractualization.”…