Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vetoed a measure that would have ended companies' practice of hiring workers on short-term contracts, his ...
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vetoed a measure that would have ended companies' practice of hiring workers on short-term contracts, his spokesman said on Friday , reneging on a campaign promise that helped put him in office.
Without the veto, the Bill would have become law on Saturday. To override Dueterte's veto requires a two-thirds vote of the members of each house of Congress."It really hurts us because this is the president's campaign promise," Alan Tanjusay, a spokesman of the Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, the country's biggest such grouping, told news channel ANC.
Not only will it raise business costs, limiting the number of people they can hire, but they said the Bill would drive away investors at a time when the Philippines seeks to attract foreign capital to boost economic growth and create jobs.
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