Industrial Relations

The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the payment of back wages and damages by a popular local spa to its manager who was fired from her job upon the advice of the owner’s feng shui master.

CEBU, Philippines – The Eversley Childs Sanitarium Employees Union (ECSEU) has filed two urgent motions with the Department of Health – Center for Health Development – Region 7 (DOH-CHD-7) seeking to hasten the hearing of its case against the Sanitarium’s chief Dr. Primo Joel S.Alvez and Dr. Joanri T. Riveral.

The Court of Appeals (CA) upheld two decisions of the Office of the Ombudsman which found two workers of the National Transmission Corp. (Transco) guilty of simple misconduct and imposed one month suspension for failing to act on the leave of absence application of an employee that caused cancellation of her payroll.

MANILA, Philippines – An American businessman outsour­cing the manufacture of dental-related products in the country has closed down his shop in Manila and his 416 employees only found out about it through e-mail.

MANILA, Philippines – Education Secretary Armin Luistro yesterday denied allegations of the department’s employees union that he has illegally appointed several new officials and added an excessive number of consultants to the detriment of the department.

AFTER CONCILIATION-MEDIATION MANILA, Philippines—Seven cases of preventive mediation in one of the country’s biggest geothermal companies have been settled by the National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) following a series of conciliation conferences that resulted in the awarding of more than P120 million in retirement benefits.

MANILA, Philippines—The union of flight attendants and stewards of Philippine Airlines Wednesday accused the national flag carrier’s management of having a “beerhouse mentality” in seeking to retire flight attendants when they turn 40 or 45 years old.

Flag carrier OKs equity restructuring THE NUMEROUS labor issues hounding Lucio Tan-led Philippine Airlines (PAL) have scared away potential investors from bailing out the bleeding flag carrier.

MANILA, Philippines—The Supreme Court Tuesday created a special committee that will try to mediate the two-decade land dispute between Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) owned by the family of President Aquino and the farmer beneficiaries.

MANILA, Philippines—Philippine Airlines Tuesday disputed claims made by its flight attendants’ union that the flag carrier had unilaterally imposed unfair labor practices, saying current employment terms were approved by the employees’ union itself.

Some 50 Filipina workers employed as beauticians in Kuwait have sought the Philippine Embassy’s help against their employers whom they accused of illegal recruitment, oppressive labor practices, and physical and sexual abuse.

MANILA, Philippines – Members of a big workers group at the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority have renewed their petition to Subic Bay Freeport Zone president Armand Arreza for help in a labor dispute affecting at least 37 employees.

Dear PAO, I have been working for a private company for over a year now. My salary is computed on a monthly basis. The company, in computing my monthly salary, multiplies 26 days to the minimum wage, but I think that I am not properly compensated since there are months, which have 31 days. Please…

MANILA, Philippines—As the labor disputes in Hacienda Luisita, ABS-CBN, and Philippine Airline rages on, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has helped resolve four labor disputes in four regions.

LEGAZPI CITY, Aug. 19 (PNA)-– Media outlets like local newspaper publications as well as radio and television stations are now deputized receiving desks for labor complaints in the Bicol region.

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III said Wednesday the government might open the airline market to more competition if the workers in Philippine Airlines struck and crippled the nation’s largest carrier.

MANILA, Philippines – The management of Philippine Airlines and the PAL Flight Attendants and Stewards Association (FASAP) failed to break the deadlock with both sides unwilling to change their stance.

The Bureau of Internal Revenue should immediately audit the erring firms for possible non-payment or underpayment of their tax obligations.

Dear PAO, I have been employed for almost ten years. However, due to my desire to look for a greener pasture abroad, I decided to resign from my current job. Am I entitled to a separation pay? Manny

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Airport employees have suffered a legal setback after the Court of Appeals stopped the implementation of a court order for the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) to pay them their cost of living allowance (COLA ) and amelioration from 1999 up to the present.

Philippine Airlines (PAL) has asked government to rule on an appeal filed by workers who are contesting the company’s plan to outsource 2,600 jobs. This was announced by PAL president Jaime Bautista early evening of Thursday, four hours after it met with government mediators and representatives of the PAL Employees Association (PALEA) at the National…

THE PALACE will review the implementation of the holiday economics law, or Republic Act (RA) 9492, on a case-to-case basis, an official said yesterday, after President Benigno C. Aquino III canceled the Aug. 23 holiday in commemoration of the death anniversary of his father, former senator Benigno S. Aquino, Jr.

Members of the Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (Palea) and the Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) picketed the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) office in Manila on Thursday to ask the agency to tighten regulations and plug loopholes that have allowed employers to massively supplant regular workers with contractual labor.

As expected, and despite protestations to the contrary, they are now floating the idea of legalizing abortion or the taking of the life of an innocent, defenseless, unborn child in the mother’s womb. This latest move just confirms the long held view that the so-called reproductive health and reproductive rights of women, provided for in…

Besides their main labor complaints on early retirement age, more work and less pay, Philippine Airlines’ (PAL) flight attendants have another issue to raise: shorter breaktimes during domestic flights.

MANILA, Philippines—Unions in Hacienda Luisita, once united in their plea for better working conditions despite threats of violence, are divided in the face of pressures brought about by a compromise settlement with the estate management.

A Filipino publishing firm operating in the United States has been banned by the US Labor department from hiring temporary workers after it admitted committing violations of labor law.

OFFICIALS of the Philippine Airlines (PAL) on Tuesday appealed to the Flight Attendants and Stewards Association of the Philippines (Fasap) to spare the public from the inconvenience of its planned strike.

MANILA, Philippines—Despite government intervention and management assurance of job security, many more Philippine Airlines (PAL) pilots are preparing to resign in the coming weeks, threatening to once again cripple the flag carrier’s operations.