DOLE-NCR forms monitoring team to ensure implementation of contracting & subcontracting rules

Thursday 12th of July 2012

QUEZON CITY, JULY 12 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment-National Capital Region (DOLE-NCR) formed a tripartite monitoring team to ensure the effective implementation of contracting & subcontracting rules in the country's premier region.

In a statement, DOLE-NCR Director Alan Macaraya said the tripartite monitoring team was created after the consultative assemblies of the region’s Tripartite Industrial Peace Council (RTIPC) whose members agreed on the composition of the team that will police the implementation of D.O. 18-A Series of 2011, or the “Rules Implementing Articles 106 to 109 of the Labor Code, As Amended.”

Macaraya is the team’s chairperson with NCR Assistant Regional Director Benjo Santos Benavidez as alternate chairperson.

Representatives from various labor and management sectors, namely, Nestor Asuncion (Education ITC); Angelo Gamboa (Bus Transport ITC); Francisco Dacanay (Fishing ITC), Leonard Vinz Ignacio (Broadcast ITC); Alexander Albino (Makati/Pasay TIPC); and Leonides Rabanes (Bus Transport ITC) are members of the tripartite monitoring team.

Also included as members are representatives from the Philippine Association of Local Service Contractors (PALSCON), Philippine Association of Detective and Protective Agency Operators (PADPAO), local Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and local government units in Metro Manila.

The region-based tripartite monitoring team shall be constituted as subcommittee of the Regional Tripartite Industrial Peace Council (RTIPC) and required to submit a quarterly regional monitoring report to the DOLE Secretary and to the National Tripartite Industrial Peace Council under section 31 of D.O.18-A.

DOLE's D.O. 18-A took effect on December 5, 2011, 15 days after it has been published in a national newspaper.

The order promotes employment and encourages full compliance with minimum wages and general labor standards, including safe and healthful conditions of work, security of tenure, and self-organization and collective bargaining agreement.

It will also entitle workers to Social Security benefits, which includes membership to SSS, Philhealth, and Pag-IBIG.

The order will also impose stricter requirements for contractors, subcontractors, and cooperatives to ensure only qualified companies will be able to operate.

These include P3 million paid capital to operate, possession of necessary tools and work premises to deliver their service, an employer-employee relationship with their workers, a PR25,000 registration fees, and the inclusion of a mandatory 10 percent administrative fee in their service contracts.

It will also require contractors, subcontractors, and cooperatives to honor the full extent of the service contract with a company, which will prevent them from cutting the services of their workers in short periods per year. (DOLE/RJB/SDL/PIA-NCR)