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Cristobal, M. A. E. A., & Resurreccion, E. I. (2014). De-confusing contractualization:

Defining employees engaged in precarious work in the Philippines. Phil. LJ, 88, 342.

In this article, Cristobal and Resurreccion define precarious work and how the practice of
contractualization has diminished workers’ control over their working conditions and
environment, resulting in lowered job satisfaction and motivation. The researchers used a
descriptive research design and incorporated legal data such as Philippine Labor Jurisprudence and
cited labor case precedents. This coincides with their goals to help alleviate the precariousness that
threatens contractual employees, the lack of benefits, and unfair labor practices that weigh down
job conditions and environment. The scope of the study encompasses various industries that have
widespread patronage of contractualization among employers, such as Philippine Airlines, PLDT,
and many more conglomerates/business industries in the country. This article proves useful to my
topic, as this study provided notable findings regarding the job conditions and employment
environment of our country’s precarious workers. The perceived limitation of the study is that it
could make use of actual first-hand information from actual contractual workers in the tackled
industries and corporations to which an interview or the conduction of surveys might prove
supplemental. To conclude, the study calls it high time to put into question if the country’s labor
laws are keeping in step to ensure that as some sectors reap the gains of globalization, more
vulnerable sectors, particularly the working class engaged in precarious work, will be protected.
Mechanisms must be held in place to curb the tendency of local firms to favor flexibilization
programs that force the country’s labor force into precarious employment situations, which subject
workers to unstable employment, lower wages, lack of benefits, lacking of rights to a union, and
undesirable working conditions that provide little room for growth. This study supports and
enhances my study as it gives insights and realizations regarding current contractual workers’
employment environment, a core component of my study. 300 words