(Eagle News) — Labor Undersecretary Dominador Say has resigned.
Say announced on Tuesday, April 17, that he submitted his resignation letter on April 9 so that Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III could be spared from accusations he was pro-management in the issue of contractualization.
His announcement comes on the same day President Rodrigo Duterte announced he had sacked over corruption allegations “a set of officials” who he said even asked him to run for the presidency when he was still mayor of Davao.
“We have been reading (reports) that the Secretary is being a softie to management, but that is not true. I decided to step back to give the secretary elbow room,” Say, who was a member of the Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, said.
He said Bello directed him and and Labor Undersecretary Joel Maglunsod to ensure the regularization of 300,000 workers.
“I won’t be standing in the way for the Secretary to meet this target, as 300,000 is not a small number,” he said.
But he defended himself from the accusations, saying his approach was “purely legal.”
“I am not pro-management because I came from the labor sector,” he said.
