The much awaited bill, House Bill No. 2592 or the "BPO Workers' Welfare and Protection Act of 2010, originally filed last 14th Congress, was refiled today by Kabataan Party-list Rep. Mong Palatino.
In his explanatory note, Rep. Palatino explained that the bill "seeks to assert the prescribed labor standards set forth in the Labor Code and institutionalize additional benefits that would hopefully address specific work-related problems and issues peculiar to the nature of BPO work.”
Citing numerous feedbacks received after the young legislator delivered a speech on the plight of BPO workers same month last year, a refined bill has been filed to address the growing problems that need serious and concrete measures in order to protect the welfare of thousands of BPO workers.
The refined and updated bill includes 1) mandatory regularization of all employees who have worked for at least six months in the company; 2) standardization of restroom breaks; 3) standardization of the medical check-up benefits for all workers; 4) right to organize and establish formations and unions; and 5) right to due process in administrative proceedings.
Let us support HB 2592!
Tell your call center friends, relatives, FB friends and Twitter followers that we need their support in order to pressure Congress to pass this bill. Write your district representatives; tell them that we want this bill passed this 15th Congress.
Read and download full text of the bill. Click here and here.
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