A THOUSAND workers are being retrenched by four garment factories in the Mactan Export Processing Zone in Cebu, the Partido ng Manggagawa or Workers’ Party labor group said yesterday.
Metroware, Mactan Apparel, Fedder Apparel and Global had sent notices to several workers and were already paying separation pay to the first few batches, the group said in a statement.
It could not be confirmed if, indeed, 1,000 workers were being laid off in the export processing zone.
The group said one of those laid off was Jose Pelino Jr., its leader in Metroware, and that Pelino had accused the company of illegal dismissal because he was retrenched for his efforts to organize his fellow workers.
Pelino went to the Labor Department’s office in Cebu yesterday to complain, the group said. –Manila Standard Today
June 2025
Philippine Environment Month!
“Action for Nature, for the Future!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
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Monthly Observances:
1 Jun – World Day of Parents
5 Jun – World Environment Day
7 Jun – World Food Safety Day
8 Jun – World Oceans Day
12 Jun – World Day Against
Child Labour
15 Jun – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
16 Jun – International Day of Family Remittances
17 Jun – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
20 Jun – World Refugee Day
25 Jun – Day of the Seafarer
27 Jun – Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
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