Duterte ends “Endo”

I know I won’t be able to negotiate since I’m only digging ditches but I want to find some place where it isn’t so “black”(as the Japanese calls it), which means OT not paid, no break time or there might be but only on paper. Almost every Japanese except for the very old ones is quitting so they started hiring foreigners with zero Japanese language comprehension and claimed to understand English who in reality do not and I’m being used to translate for these new guys for free on top of my job assignment adding to the stress. I’m sorry for these guys but I’m not a hero.

 

This was posted by OzeMike in another thread about his partners experience with ENDO in response to my question on his personal experience.

Working wives

Yes I almost did a reply in the Endo thread. But as you asked from my previous partners experience over 4 different supermarket chains in Cebu the 5 month Endo contract was just a money saving exercise by the companies.

Very few of her fellow workers if any got offered full time positions. My partner was an exceptional good worker never missed going to work and was praised by her supervisors but never got offered a full time position.

It's a money saving anti union ploy by the greedy supermarket owners. It needs to end.

 

I personally think ending ENDO is a great thing. An employer can still fire a bad employee at anytime but now have to watch out for bad employee's rather then just keep an eye out for that 1 really good employee while you cycle through tons of averages. However I do think their are a lot of poor workers out there and its hard to find a good one even if you offer good money. Have a business that goes through a couple of employee's and you'll see it. There are plenty of foreigners here with business's like Tommy, Ron, and a few others that pay pretty well especially when compared to competition and all of them will have stories of lots of bad workers who didn't last long. Sit on their phones every chance they get, never try and be friendly, outgoing, and cheerful to customers, never try and upsell, even ignoring customers until customers call and that's if they didn't do a no show or call in sick for work to go to the beach with friends on your busiest day of the week.

However employers should be the one watching out for bad employee's and you can even use other employee's to assist in it such as some of the longer term more loyal employee's. The 5 month thing was just about not paying full costs for an employee and thus getting cheaper labor.

Still though I'd like to see them address all the business's who don't comply with minimum wage and benefits even if its by going around and quietly auditing small and large business's employee's. Plus a look at some of the realities with a few of these business's where affording to pay their two workers 320p and benefits a day would kill said business likely (some of these cheap eateries and various others).