Demystifying Contractualization: Why Manpower Agencies are Useless?
https://www.facebook.com/notes/luke-espiritu/demystifying-contractualization-why-manpower-agencies-are-useless/1703060239730866/ Demystifying Contractualization: Why Manpower Agencies are Useless? by LUKE ESPIRITU May 24, 2018 The popular narrative regarding contractualization is that it began with the so-called Herrera Law of 1989. Allegedly, the Herrera Law introduced amendments to the Labor Code, or Presidential Decree 442, in the form of Articles 106 to 109 on contractor and sub-contractor.[1] Article 106 in particular is seen as the culprit behind contractualization. Since then, the idea of employment being bilateral and protected by security of tenure provided by the Labor Code gave way to another arrangement, the trilateral, which involves three parties, the principal, the job contractor, and the worker. This narrative is problematic for the Herrera Law did not introduce Articles 106 to 109 of the Labor Code. True, the Herrera Law, or Republic Act 6715, amended