Change is the only constant thing in the world.
Every country grow and develop
as the time goes by. The citizens have a lot of demand for their need while the
country has also a demand to satisfy and support for its continuing progress. The
need of human labor is one of the vital resources that a country needs for its
endeavor towards the development of the country and the citizens in it.
Today, big and small corporations are being asked to supply several
requirements which include flexible working arrangements for their employees.
Providing temporary work is probably the best step they could take in order to
offer the required flexibility while meeting their own needs as well.
Contractualization has been devised by previous lawmakers in order to address
and tackle the issue of poor economic growth in the country. It is the act of an
employer in replacing their employees every after the expiration of a certain
period of time, it is the substitution of regular workers with temporary workers
who receive comparably lower wages, along with less or no employment benefits
at all. Creating job opportunities albeit temporarily will help cater into the growth
of economics here in the Philippines.
Human being is innately to be good. They are said to be gifted with the ability to
know with the highest good that engages himself in freedom in choosing to act
on good that he ought to do. Freedom means knowing the best goal and being
able to reach for it through a decisive action.
Contractual labor may be good that it provides a living for a short period of time.
But what will happen to them at the end of their contract? Do they have to
reapply? Doing the same complicated process of getting a job? How long does it
take to get that contractual job again? What will be the source of income while
being jobless? This questions are the thoughts of some our group members.
They are concerned with the well being of the workers, "Why not just regularise
them?"
Contractualization actually enables capitalists to pay workers less for the same
work, stunt economic development, and therefore harm the interests of all
Filipinos – including of capitalists themselves'.
Contractualization is good in the first part but turns out to be bad in the latter part.
It is good for short term by giving a chance for everybody to work. It is bad in the
long run for it makes the company exploit its loophole and abuse the rights of the
workers. If humans are innately to be good, "Why does these things happen?" St.
Thomas said that humans have freedom to do the highest good then, the acts of
those companies taking advantage of the workers, it is a contradictory idea in
regards to the theory of St. Thomas.
Thus, contractual labor is not morally acceptable. It is used as a tool for the
benefit of their own rather than the benefit of the common people in the country.
Stop contractual labor!
