Industrial Relations

I went to a client’s office the other day and while waiting at the reception, I saw a big computer print out sign at the lobby—Happy birthday, Sonya! I asked the receptionist who Sonya was and he said that she is just one of the employees there.

GENERAL SANTOS — Fresh produce giant Dole Philippines, Inc. (Dolefil) yesterday denied that it does not comply with labor standards as shown by an audit of Societe Generalle de Surveillance (SGS), saying it was protesting the findings that could deny the firm a global certification on social acceptability. DOLE claims to be the world’s largest…

MANILA, Philippines – The author of a law rationalizing the country’s holidays yesterday cautioned Malacañang against its plan to review what it called holiday economics policy of the Arroyo administration, saying that the President’s advisers are misinformed about the issue.

From day one of the P-Noy government, a raging controversy has swirled around the non-career positions in the civil service in view of the issuance of memorandum circular No. 1 declaring all of them vacant. The controversy revolves around the question of whether non-career employees in the civil service enjoy security of tenure.

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino will not move legal holidays falling on a weekend as former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo had done, Malacañang said yesterday.

Striking workers who were displaced numbering to about 500 have sought the help of President Aquino to revoke the P14 billion redevelopment project of the harbor forged during the time of President Arroyo which aimed to privatize the whole sea port.

SOME 400 former workers of the North Harbor barricaded two of its gates as they pushed for the cancellation of a P14 billion redevelopment project and the payment of their back wages.

MANILA, Philippines – Keen on creating jobs here at home, President Benigno Aquino III underscored in his inaugural address the need to provide an environment conducive to business in the country, so Filipinos need not look for jobs abroad.

Dear PAO, I have been a college professor for more than a decade. My husband and I have been separated for seven years. Almost two years ago, I engaged in a relationship with another man and I am now pregnant. My husband is now living with his new “wife.” He has not been seeing our…

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MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino ordered yesterday the review of midnight appointments made by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as one way of stopping abuses in government.

Conclusion Former Senior Government Officials (FSGO) member and columnist Lito Banayo and former Civil Service Commission Chairman Karina Constantino David said that former President and Rep. Gloria Arroyo of Pampanga made numerous midnight appointments that could potentially present problems to President Benigno Aquino 3rd.

VANCOUVER, Canada – Many Filipino workers in the hotel industry in Vancouver joined a protest against deteriorating work conditions despite improving revenues at the start of 2010.

A GROUP claiming to represent 1,400 workers in broadcast giant ABS-CBN Corp.’s job pool said yesterday more than two dozen members have been terminated for their refusal to accept regular employment status.

THE PHILIPPINE Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) yesterday appealed the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DoLE) decision allowing Lucio C. Tan-led Philippine Airlines (PAL) to proceed with an outsourcing scheme that will lay off ground staff.

Can an employee be dismissed for offenses committed during her employment in a government owned or controlled corporation which were subsequently discovered by same corporation after it was privatized and after it rehired her? This is one of the questions answered in this case of Lucy.

MANILA, Philippines—Former Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) president Jose Anselmo Cadiz, who is reportedly being considered by President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to head the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE), yesterday defended his record as being “pro-people” and dismissed allegations that he was pro-management for having lawyered for two major banks.

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The Aquino Administration shall be inheriting from the Arroyo Administration  complex  and numerous labor problems.  These include, among others, the following  –

Dismissed employees of broadcasting giant ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. accused the company’s chairman, Eugenio Lopez III, of unfair labor practices, including union busting.

Dear PAO, The company where I worked was one of the companies that suffered recession in 2008. In 2009, the company closed its office after it declared bankruptcy. All the employees were terminated but we were not given our respective separation pay. Two months after the closure, we heard that the company reestablished its operation…

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Dear PAO, I filed a complaint before the National Labor Relations Commission for illegal dismissal against my employer. During mediation, my employer said that he will not pay a single cent to me because I was the one who abandoned my work. Can you clarify to me this allegation? Jose

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The President-elect said over the weekend that he would review the Department of Labor and Employment’s decision giving Philippine Airlines the go signal to outsource some of its non-core business functions. PAL had been bleeding heavily in the last few years on account of a combination of factors—most notably the drastic fluctuations on the prices…

Dear PAO, I am employed as an Administrative Staff for a company engaged in taxi business. Two weeks ago, my boss approached me and informed me that they needed to terminate my services because the operation of the business was going downhill. He told me that it would be better if I resign because that…

TACLOBAN — The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) central office has stepped in and assumed jurisdiction over the labor row at the Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Corp. (PASAR), averting a strike at the only copper smelting and refining factory in the country.

PRESIDENT-ELECT Benigno Aquino III on Sunday vowed to “ascertain the facts” and review the Labor Department’s order approving the planned outsourcing of some 2,600 jobs of the money-losing Philippine Airlines, the first major labor case to test the incoming administration.

MANILA, Philippines—About 1,000 workers of media giant ABS-CBN decried the dismissal of their contract following their refusal to accept the company’s terms for regularization.