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Most Filipino construction workers are contractuals, paid low wages and don't enjoy protections. Photo from Construction Week Online

‘Subcontracting to help Eton escape liability for deaths of 10 workers’

By Fri, Jan 28, 2011 5:54PM UTC View Comments Most Filipino construction workers are contractuals, paid low wages and don't enjoy protections. Photo from Construction Week Online

An ecumenical labor advocacy group today called on the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to end existing “subcontracting chains” in the construction sector, after 10 workers fell to their deaths Thursday at their work site in Makati City. According to the Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER), the incident should move DOLE...

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