MALACAÑANG said Tuesday that President Rodrigo R. Duterte will certify as urgent new legislation to replace the Security of Tenure Bill that he vetoed last week.

“I think so, yes,” the President’s Spokesperson Salvador S. Panelo said when asked if the President considers the new legislation as urgent.

He noted that the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) is drafting a new Security of Tenure Bill, while Senator Emmanuel Joel J. Villanueva has re-filed the bill which the President vetoed.

“There is in fact a proposed new measure to be submitted to Congress, (as noted) by Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III yesterday… So they are drafting that,” he said.

Mr. Panelo said while the vetoed version of the measure has been re-filed, “[t]here will be amendments, so the suggestions by the Department of Labor could be the subject of any amendment to the bill.”

Mr. Villanueva said on Monday that he will ask the President’s economic managers, including Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto M. Pernia and Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III, who had expressed reservations about the bill a few days before it was vetoed, to point out objectionable provisions. This move was supported by the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), which said it will file a counterpart measure at the House of Representatives through Rep. Raymond Democrito C. Mendoza.

The proposed law will amend Presidential Decree No. 442, or the Labor Code of the Philippines, by prohibiting labor-only contracting and providing penalties for noncompliance.

Source: https://www.bworldonline.com/new-measure-replacing-vetoed-sot-bill-to-be-certified-as-urgent/