Security of Tenure
While most Constitutions provide workers' security of tenure under fixed compensation packages and employee benefits, the increasing practice of manpower agency hiring and business power outsourcing are proving to be disadvantageous to the present generation workers.
It has become a common practice of business establishments, especially the above-medium enterprises, to enter into contracts with manpower agencies to provide majority of the workforce that are required in the operations and maintenance of their business.
The important feature of the said contract which the enterprise is actually primarily interested in is the undertaking of the agency to assume responsibility to provide all labor-related benefits that the workers are entitled to under existing laws, effectively releasing the business enterprise from all obligations it should have been required by law.
In the process, the practice extinguishes what is supposed to be en employer-employee relationship between the enterprise and the workers.
In effect, the tenure of the worker depends not primarily on how he performs within any given business enterprise which may be appreciative of his performance, but on the agency's discretion whether to retain or reshuffle him to another contractual enterprise.
And the amount of compensation that the worker receives will not necessarily be what the enterprise would have wanted to pay him in return for his exemplary performance, but the prerogative of the manpower agency.
Another disadvantage, this time on the part of the business enterprise, is that, a worker could be more productive in his job if he is made to understand and accepts to himself that he is an employee of, and belongs to the business company where he works, rather than being a mere manpower from one agency being leased on hire to another company.
At any rate, the practice has become so embedded and already widely accepted in the business community that what needs be done now is to ensure similar constitutional rights and privileges that are entitled to every worker shall be afforded them even while they remain as agency workers, and minor changes in the fundamental law is all that is required.
It has become a common practice of business establishments, especially the above-medium enterprises, to enter into contracts with manpower agencies to provide majority of the workforce that are required in the operations and maintenance of their business.
The important feature of the said contract which the enterprise is actually primarily interested in is the undertaking of the agency to assume responsibility to provide all labor-related benefits that the workers are entitled to under existing laws, effectively releasing the business enterprise from all obligations it should have been required by law.
In the process, the practice extinguishes what is supposed to be en employer-employee relationship between the enterprise and the workers.
In effect, the tenure of the worker depends not primarily on how he performs within any given business enterprise which may be appreciative of his performance, but on the agency's discretion whether to retain or reshuffle him to another contractual enterprise.
And the amount of compensation that the worker receives will not necessarily be what the enterprise would have wanted to pay him in return for his exemplary performance, but the prerogative of the manpower agency.
Another disadvantage, this time on the part of the business enterprise, is that, a worker could be more productive in his job if he is made to understand and accepts to himself that he is an employee of, and belongs to the business company where he works, rather than being a mere manpower from one agency being leased on hire to another company.
At any rate, the practice has become so embedded and already widely accepted in the business community that what needs be done now is to ensure similar constitutional rights and privileges that are entitled to every worker shall be afforded them even while they remain as agency workers, and minor changes in the fundamental law is all that is required.