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
August 12 –
International Youth Day
“Empowering youth,
building generations!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
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against serious violations of protocols of
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August –
Aug 1-7 World breastfeeding week
Aug 9 – International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Aug 12 – International youth day
Aug 19 – World humanitarian day
Aug 23 – International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
Monthly Observances:
Farms Safety Month
Breastfeeding Awareness Month
Weekly Observances:
Aug 17-23: Made in the Philippines
Product Week
Aug 29-Sept 5: Rice and Corn Week
Daily Observances:
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Aug 9: National Indigenous Peoples Day
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