Industrial Relations

THE Philippines’ flag carrier is besieged by a looming labor strike and complaints by travel agencies of unfair business practices.

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MANILA, Philippines—Yes, they admit, the board directors are receiving P98,000 in salaries/perks a month plus travel and representation allowance of P28,000 a month. And yes, the employees have bonuses galore.

For the dismissal of an employee to be valid, it must be for a just cause and with due process of law. This is again reiterated in this case of Pedro.

MANILA, Philippines – To ensure that more workers are getting the rightful wages, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is now preparing to inspect over 35,000 commercial establishments nationwide.

SAN FRANCISCO, California – Police arrested protesting hotel workers that blocked a street leading to the Grand Hyatt Hotel.

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Some 2,300 leaders and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) appealed to the Supreme Court (SC) to take a second look on the 27-year-old case and decide on the full merits of their petition, seeking to enforce National Labor Relations Commission’s order for the Texas-based giant group employer to pay all the 1,975 OFW-petitioners more than US…

Two men filed a complaint for grave misconduct before the Office of the Ombudsman for the Visayas against the members of the barangay Basak police in Mandaue City.

MANILA, Philippines – Employees of the Bataan Economic Zone appealed yesterday to President Aquino to review the midnight appointments of the chairman and board members of the newly created Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan (AFAB) in Mariveles town which they claimed hastily took over the freeport a day before President Aquino assumed his…

CEBU, Philippines – A Mandaue City police official and at least three members of the Associated Labor Unions picketing the Chagrin Incorporated in Barangay Pagsabungan were criminally charged before the Office of the Ombudsman Visayas for alleged violation of the rights of an arrested person and grave misconduct.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has urged President Benigno Aquino 3rd to intervene in the labor dispute between Philippine Airline (PAL) and its employees.

The rule is that an employer of a negligent employee or household helper shall be liable for the damages caused by the latter acting within the scope of their assigned tasks even though the former is not engaged in any business or industry. The exception is that said employer is not liable if he proves…

A new International Labor Organization (ILO) book launched on Wednesday in Geneva and Manila suggested that the multibillion-dollar business process industry (BPO), generally call centers, should now be open to listening workers’ “collective voice” and engage “social dialogue” to improve working conditions in their “high-strain” workplaces.

Dagupan City (21 July) — The Department of Labor and Employment-Regional Office 1 is set to implement an intensive inspection strategy program called Project Labor Enforcement and Action Program (Project LEAP) starting August this year.

MANILA, Philippines – The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), is urging President Benigno Aquino III to intervene in the Philippine Airlines (PAL) labor dispute.

CEBU, Philippines – ALU-TUCP yesterday denied former workers seized vehicles rented by Chagrin Inc., the company in barangay Pagsabungan, Mandaue City that is trying to shake off accusations of unfair labor practices.

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Dear PAO, I am an employee of an agency deployed in a company to which the former has a contract with. Accordingly, the contract of employer-agency will not be renewed by the company where I am deployed. Apparently, all of us deployed employees will be absorbed by the incoming agency.

As we write today, the business of doing business continues to change at head-snapping speed. In many parts of the world, employer-employee relationships are continually influenced by the dictates of the market. Where we sit, employer-employee relationship continues to be governed by rules that were set almost 40 years ago.

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – At least 700 workers here will lose their jobs after a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer announced the closure of one of its largest divisions in this free port.

A tense situation is brewing at the port of Dumaguete where workers are raising some issues against the arrastre operator.

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In illegal dismissal cases, the burden of proof rests upon the employer to show that the dismissal is for just cause. Failure to do so would mean that the dismissal is not justified. This rule is illustrated in this case of Cely.

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) has issued a ruling that defines the relationship between a life insurance company and a contracted agent for an insurance company.

After nearly a decade, 11 workers will finally receive their claims from a company whom they accused of illegally dismissing them in 2001.

BROADCAST giant ABS-CBN Corp. is accusing leaders of its job pool of “peddling disinformation,” saying it has not terminated workers nor prevented employees from forming a labor union.

MANILA, Philippines — An association of Filipino teachers based in Louisiana, US, received Saturday a prestigious award from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), an education sector labor union with almost one million members.

MANILA, Philippines – Labor leaders asked President Aquino yesterday to junk the contractual system in the labor industry, saying that this is against his 22-point platform and policy for labor.

Dear PAO, I resigned as a regular employee in April 2010. I already made the necessary turnover of company properties before my last day of work. I have left no debt or liability with the company. Since my resignation, I have not received my last pay although the company has already issued the necessary clearance.…