After the Labor agency released its list of companies guilty of labor-only contracting, the Makabayan bloc has filed on Tuesday, May 29, a resolution seeking to probe contractualization practices of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA).
House Resolution 1916, directs the Committees on Bases Conversion and Labor to hold joint investigations on the alleged rampant contractualization in SBMA, which Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani T. Zarate noted to account for half of its total workforce.
“Presently, about 50% of SBMA operations rely on contract service-hired workers,” stated in the resolution.
The solons also mentioned concerns of SBMA workers on irregularities in the remittances of their SSS contributions and income tax returns. It was reported that employees found that half of their SSS contributions were “saved by the agency for retirement.” — Charmaine A. Tadalan

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