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Revise Labor Code for Job Applicants Protection

Every working day, hundreds of Filipinos look for jobs locally.  Most of them, with calculated budget and time for each prospective employer . Unfortunately, some companies are so mindless about the very people who could be working for them.  Maybe they are wonderful in taking care of their people once officially employed with them but what about those who are still in the application process?  This aspect is not even included in the Labor Code.  And so, many applicants get taken advantage of, their resources eaten, courtesy of those companies who don't have a system  geared towards taking care of their applicants.         To be specific, take for example some call centers' recruitment practices:  Tony. Nowadays, their ads are not as true as to what they actually mean.  (Some, not all call centers though.  ) One add would say '19k' monthly but once you are face-to-face with the personnel, they'd say 'that's after 6 months'.  And so, Tony