PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES for next year’s national elections need to consider extending government benefits to contractual workers instead of abolishing labor contractualization, analysts said.
Ateneo de Manila University Economics Professor Leonardo A. Lanzona said that government cannot expect the private sector to provide support to contractual workers and consider the “significant” social gains from enacting policies such as a Universal Basic Income.
He added that while contractualization will remain a key election issue, politicians will have to consider the economic state of the country after the pandemic.“The pandemic has been made contractualization even more viable as firms are able to cut losses, […]
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