Industrial Relations

TOKYO – President Aquino confirmed last Thursday that the administration has started efforts to act as a bridge and help forge an amicable settlement to the labor dispute between Philippine Airlines and the firm’s restive employees.

CALL CENTERS MANILA, Philippines—Theirs are the 400,000 voices that give hope to the country’s newest sunshine industry, where frequent “hellos” and “goodbyes” mark the high staff turnover rate and where young dreams are woven and false hopes are raised.

MANILA, Philippines—Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on Wednesday said that “outsourcing is already with us,” defending her decision to allow Philippine Airlines (PAL) to spin off three noncore services that will result in the layoff of 2,600 workers.

Cite ‘clear danger to labor rights’ MANILA, Philippines—Saying there was a “clear and present danger to labor rights,” the country’s biggest labor groups have set aside their differences to ask President Benigno Aquino III to reverse the labor department’s ruling allowing the retrenchment of 2,600 workers of Philippine Airlines (PAL).

CEBU, Philippines – VECO Employees Union-Associated Labor Unions-Trade Congress of the Philip-pines (VECEU-ALU-TUCP) president Casmero Mahilum said that during mediation, the management remained steadfast in its stand not to reinstate him from service.

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The 2,300-strong PLDT rank-and-file union Manggagawa sa Komunikasyon ng Pilipinas (MKP)  is seeking a meeting with the management to clarify certain issues regarding the company’s ongoing manpower reduction, including its “compensation program,” which was said to have been forced upon some employees.

MANILA, Philippines – The plastic and glass manufacturing plants of diversifying conglomerate San Miguel Corporation have settled their labor-management conflicts.

A ruling by the Supreme Court (SC) affirmed the ruling of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC), directing the national flagcarrier Philippine Airlines, Inc. (PAL) to give separation pay to a former employee who contested her dismissal for incompetence.

CEBU, Philippines – The Visayan Electric Company- Employees Union-Associated Labor Unions-Trade Congress of the Philippines said it would welcome the Department of Labor and Employment into the picture if the latter decides to assume jurisdiction over the dispute between the workers and the power firm management.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has called for another conciliation meeting between the management of Philippine Airlines (PAL) and its employees who are again threatening to go on strike.

The Catholic Church yesterday joined lawmakers and other militant groups in criticizing the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) for allowing the mass lay off of some 2,600 employees of the Philippine Airlines (PAL).

SAN PEDRO, Laguna, Philippines—At least 106 workers are losing their jobs in a Japanese car parts firm just after entering into a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the firm, a labor organization said.

PHILIPPINE Long Distance Telephone Co. said Thursday it planned to cut nearly 1,200 jobs after intensifying competition led the phone operator to its slowest profit growth in six quarters.

Manila (4 November) — The Department of Labor and Employment and its tripartite partners in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry has agreed on the creation of a voluntary code of industry best practices which can best address the difficulties that workers and employees in this booming industry face.

MANILA, Philippines—Where will P1 million get you if you don’t have a job? The ground crew union of Philippine Airlines (PAL) Thursday said it was fighting for job security and not for a higher separation pay, in response to the PAL management announcement that retrenched employees would be getting almost P1 million in separation benefits.

CEBU, Philippines – The management of Visayan Electric Company assured that service will continue as before and that their customers will not be affected by the “unfortunate and irresponsible statements and actions” of the ALU and 156 “misguided union team members who have chosen a path of utmost disregard for the public they were hired…

CEBU, Philippines – About 500 business establishments in the Metro Cebu have been found violating the minimum wage law.

PHILIPPINE Airlines on Wednesday assured the 2,600 employees to be laid off in its outsourcing plan that they will receive at least P1 million each in separation benefits and free plane tickets for their families on any domestic or foreign destination.

FRESH from a favorable government ruling on its planned retrenchment, Philippine Airlines (PAL) on Wednesday said it would tap state-owned banks to finance the multibillion-peso severance package of close to 2,600 terminated rank-and-file workers. In a briefing, Jaime Bautista, PAL president and chief operating officer, told reporters that the company’s planned spin-off of in-flight catering,…

CEBU, Philippines – The members of the labor union of the Visayan Electric Company (VECO) voted yes to a strike last night. Majority of the 239 members of the Visayan Electric Company Employees Union – Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (VECEU-ALU-TUCP ) favor the staging of strike during the vote held outside…

The labor code provides that regular employees cannot be dismissed without cause and due process. The stability of tenure of personnel is one of the 14 principles of management contributed by Henri Fayol. According to Fayol, employees work better when they are assured of job security and career progress. All their efforts and energies are…

The Palace said yesterday it is four-square behind Labor Secretary Rosalindo Baldoz’s decision favoring flag-carrier Philippine Airline’s (PAL) outsourcing of its businesses that resulted in the layoff of 2,600 employees while at the same time advising the Philippine Airlines Employees Association (Palea) to exhaust legal remedies to defend their rights.

The Negros Labor Coalition condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent decision of Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz upholding the planned outsourcing of services and consequent severance from employment of 2,600 affected Philippine Airline employees, NLC convenor Wennie Sancho said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Local carrier Philippine Airlines said it is willing to put to rest the messy labor row between the management and labor union with a P2.5 billion settlement.

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MANILA—Philippine Airlines welcomed the decision of Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz affirming the flag carrier’s prerogative to spin off three non-core business units that will result in the layoff of some 2,600 rank and file workers.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) is ready to go to the Court of Appeals following Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz’s decision upholding the plan of the management of the flag carrier to layoff some 3,000 employees.

MANILA, Philippines—The National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) has settled labor disputes at Clark Development Corporation (CDC) in Clark Field, Pampanga and Best Chemical and Plastic Inc. in Barrio Maduya, Carmona, Cavite, the Department of Labor and Employment said in a news release.

MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE) Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has allowed Philippine Airlines’ planned mass layoff of some 3,000 employees when she affirmed the previous order of then acting labor secretary Romeo Lagman denying the motion for reconsideration of the ground crew union at the national flag carrier.