Industrial Relations

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Airlines’ giant Boeing 747-400 and Airbus 330 jets – normally used for international flights – have been servicing selected domestic routes including Cebu City since Monday to accommodate passengers affected by the pilots’ walkout.

MANILA, Philippines – The government clarified on Tuesday that it will not take over flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL). Palace officials said they are ruling out the option even as the labor row between PAL management and the company’s resigned pilots remains unresolved.

MANILA, Philippines—Philippine Airlines cannot stop its pilots from seeking better-paying jobs overseas and then force them to fly its planes, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines said Tuesday.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines yesterday said in a press release that Philippine Airlines has to offer its resigned pilots highly-improved benefits so the company can lure them back.

FAR Eastern University (FEU) in Manila and Silliman University in Dumaguete have sealed new collective bargaining deals with their employees, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) said at the weekend.

CEBU, Philippines – Five manpower and security agencies have been placed by Home Mutual Development Fund in Cebu City under its watchlist for failure to remit the monthly contributions of the employees.

It has happened before with our doctors. It is happening again today with our pilots. There was a time when the brain drain of our doctors to the United States was a hot issue. It takes time and money to study medicine and the investments are made by the families of doctors. Can we blame…

PHILIPPINE Airlines’ flight attendants said Monday they planned to strike in two weeks amid an impasse in talks on what they claimed was the flag carrier’s practice of assigning fewer than needed staff on flights.

Early retirement age may lead to strike; PAL says union agreed to it MANILA, Philippines – Why retire flight attendants at age 40? This, according to a flight attendants’ union, is the reason why around 1,600 cabin crew of flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) are threatening to stop work in a month’s time.

MANILA, Philippines—The management and union officials of the Philippine Daily Inquirer Monday signed a new three-year collective bargaining agreement (CBA) on salary increases and other benefits worth over P95 million.

More dialogues to be held; carrier cuts cancellations MALACAÑANG mediation yesterday failed to resolve a labor row between Philippine Airlines (PAL) management and some of its pilots, with officials announcing the staging of further dialogues aimed at ending three days of flight disruptions.

Issues unresolved in Palace-brokered talks with PAL management, pilots MANILA, Philippines – The labor dispute between the Philippine Airlines (PAL) management and its pilots is far from over.

We probably have read or heard about organizations that are operating as sweatshops, where employees are paid below minimum wage and are made to work in unhealthy or unsafe work environments. Similarly, we may know of organizations that shuffle their contractual employees among various agencies that are sometimes owned by related parties or between branches…

No sanctions, vows DOTC secretary The management of flag-carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) has agreed to take back 25 pilots who have resigned without any sanctions being imposed on them, Secretary Jose de Jesus of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) said on Monday. Government officials on Monday met separately with the management of PAL…

Pilots who left flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) without giving the company ample time to train their replacements have been ordered to return to work within seven days or face civil, criminal and administrative charges.

PHILIPPINE Airlines on Sunday rejected the resignation of 25 pilots who quit without notice, telling them to return to work or face charges after their departure forced the airline to cancel flights and rebook passengers over the weekend.

MANILA, Philippines—The National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) on Monday said it has settled a complex labor-management dispute involving two furniture export companies and a union in Cebu.

EIGHT MORE FLIGHTS CANCELLED Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) yesterday said it rejected the resignation of more than two dozens of its pilots and gave them seven days to return to work or face court charges as President Aquino said his government would intervene in the labor dispute which had caused flight cancellations.

PASSENGERS of Philippine Airlines (PAL) may continue experiencing delays of flights at least a week more even if the country’s flag carrier demanded its more than two dozen pilots to return to work. In a statement, the Lucio Tan-owned airline carrier rejected the resignation of its pilots and called on them to respect their existing…

MANILA, Philippines – Adding to the burden of the Philippine Airlines (PAL), its flight attendants are also going on strike within 2 weeks due to management’s alleged failure to address their labor problems.

Government officials are giving their non Career Executive Service Officers (CESO) until October 30 at the earliest to vacate their Career Executive Service (CES) positions. In line with the Memorandum Circular (MC) 2 issued by Malacañang which extends the services of non career officials holding Career Executive Service positions until October 30, top officials are…

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Airlines (PAL) rejected yesterday the resignation of more than two dozen pilots and ordered them to return to work within seven days.

EX@40 refers to the on-going mess at the airport where pilots and crew members of a major airline have walked away from their jobs after learning that the company would soon implement a policy of retiring employees at age 40.

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Airlines yesterday cancelled eight domestic flights and one international flight to Hong Kong due to lack of pilots after many of the airline’s pilots have resigned or have been hired by foreign airlines that pay higher wages.

Flag-carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) yesterday said it had to cancel several domestic and international flights after some of its pilots quit without giving enough notice.

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MANILA, Philippines—The leaders of the group of farm workers claiming ownership of the 6,500-hectare Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac—owned by the Cojuangco family of President Benigno Aquino III—are perplexed over why the Supreme Court has given priority to a labor question that had been settled four years ago.

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang yesterday decided to allow non-career service officials working in various government offices to continue until Oct. 31, 2010.

The Supreme Court (SC) has decided a labor case filed by sugar workers against the Central Azucarera de Tarlac (CAT) owned by the family of President Aquino, which decision ruled against the Cojuangco-Aquino clan’s sugar business, saying it acted in bad faith.

MANILA, Philippines – In what could be an early display of independence from the new administration, the Supreme Court (SC) has ruled against the sugar mill and refinery owned by President Aquino’s family in Tarlac.