Industrial Relations

THE Labor Department on Friday ordered Philippine Airlines’ management to recall all the notice of terminations  it issued to an estimated 3,500 workers last week, and following a mediation hearing presided by Undersecretary for Labor Relations Rosalinda Baldoz.

Trumpets ‘achievements’ for the sector in final Labor Day speech Painting herself as a champion of laborers while trying to appease the workers’ displeasure over her administration’s anti-labor policies, President Arroyo, in her last Labor Day speech yesterday, enumerated to various labor groups and workers in attendance at the event her “achievements” for the benefit…

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Saturday directed Labor Secretary Marianito Roque to speed up the ongoing tripartite negotiations on wage hikes as well as to immediately address the pending labor cases before the National Labor Relations Commission.

CEBU, Philippines – The call to stop mass layoffs and labor contractualization rang loud and clear in protests on Labor Day yesterday as the demand to reform the wage fixing system and abolish the wage boards were also highlighted in the protests led by the partylist Partido ng Manggagawa.

Two decades after the Aquino government successfully rammed through the first major revision of the country’s Labor Code to the detriment of workers’ rights, the Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) recently aired its desire to revise it anew. As with previous attempts to change the Labor Code, their stated reasons boil down to the…

There seems to be no point in celebrating Labor Day with the contractualization of workers in the Philippines going from lingering to worsening.

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) will start investigating next week some of the country’s private inter-related companies suspected of applying the transfer pricing policy to substantially cut down on their tax payments.

THE Labor Department has assumed jurisdiction over the outsourcing dispute within Philippine Airlines, stopping the labor union from striking and ordering its management to “refrain from committing any act that might exacerbate the situation.”

MANILA, Philippines—The National Labor Relations Commission has ruled in favor of the Sentosa Recruitment Agency anew, INQUIRER.net learned.

SAN FRANCISCO – Two Filipino caregivers are celebrating their legal victory against their employer who they say abused them for years.

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KEY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES ON FOA AND CIVIL LIBERTIES, TRADE UNION RIGHTS AND ENFORCEMENT OF LABOR LAWS IN THE TARLAC AND OTHER ECOZONES IN THE REGION INCLUDING SUGGESTED RESPONSES IN FORM OF ROLES, MANDATES, PROGRAMMES FOR CAPACITY BUILDING By Bro. Reynaldo Reyes, Union Representative, ALU-TUCP 27 April 2010, Holiday Inn, Clark, Pampanga

Last Monday, The Manila Times published a news story where Nacionalista Party senatorial candidate Susan “Toots” Ople urged the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to recall its Memorandum Circular 268, which allows banks to freely subcontract out in bulk jobs normally performed by their regular employees.

MANILA, Philippines – Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay and City Administrator Marjorie de Veyra were charged before Office of the Ombudsman for the dismissal of 138 casual employees of the city government.

Capacity Building Seminar on the Freedom of Association, Collective Bargaining and Labor Law implementation in the Philippine Economic Zones Closing Message by FUR-TUCP Executive Vice President ARTURO BASEA 23 April 2010, PHINMA Training Center, Tagaytay City On behalf of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, our members, their families and our partners, I would…

JAKARTA – Thousands of furious Indonesian factory workers set fire to cars and a warehouse Thursday after an Indian company executive called them “stupid,” police and media reports said.

KEY ISSUES AND RESPONSES ON THE REALIZATION OF FOA, CB AND LABOR LAW IMPLEMENTATION IN THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMIC ZONES By LIKHA-TUCP President and TUCP Vice President JESUS VILLAMOR 22 April 2010, PHINMA Training Center, Tagaytay City Key issues and responses on the realization of FOA, CB and labor law implement in the Philippine ecozones, LIKHA-TUCP…

SAN FRANCISCO – A Filipino shipyard worker, along with his union and supporters, launched a protest in San Francisco for being unjustly fired because of his sexual orientation.

PRIORITY AREAS the next administration should tackle within its first 100 days in office were identified yesterday by the country’s largest employers’ group at the conclusion of its annual conference.

CEBU, Philippines – Members of the Eversley Child Sanitaruim Employees Union are asking the regional director of the Department of Health -7 to place under preventive suspension their Chief of Hospital and their Chief of Clinics following charges filed against them for alleged administrative offenses.

MANILA, Philippines – The business sector will ask President Arroyo to amend the labor code in order to accommodate changes in the global economy and make the country more attractive as an investment destination for companies.

This is another case of resignation amounting to constructive dismissal. The test applied here is whether a reasonable person in the employee’s position would have felt compelled to give up his position under the circumstances. This is the case of Magno.

PHILIPPINE Airlines announced Monday a wider outsourcing plan that would eliminate 3,500 non-core jobs as a condition precedent to the capital-short flag carrier taking in an unidentified airline-related company as partner.

Employers’ group says flexibility needed in times of economic difficulty THE COUNTRY’S LARGEST employer group is poised to issue a resolution today calling for amendments to the Labor Code, including a provision that bars the reduction of benefits for workers.

FORMER labor undersecretary and now Nacionalista Party senatorial candidate Susan “Toots” Ople is pushing for the recall of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Memorandum Circular 268, which allows banks to freely subcontract out in bulk jobs normally performed by their regular employees.

MANILA, Philippines—Philippine Airlines (PAL) employees on Monday held a motorcade on Monday in protest at a massive retrenchment to be implemented on May 31.

MALOLOS, Bulacan: Nacionalista Party senatorial candidate Susan “Toots” Ople is pushing for the recall of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Memorandum Circular 268, which allows banks to freely subcontract out in bulk jobs normally performed by their regular employees. Former Labor Undersecretary Ople said that labor unions have been strongly opposed to circular, which has…

MANILA, Philippines – To prevent the company from bleeding further, Philippine Airlines (PAL) will implement the next phase of its restructuring program, starting with the spin-off of three non-core units, effective at the close of business hours on May 31, 2010.

MANILA, Philippines – North Harbor operator Manila North Harbour Port Inc. (MNHPI) has advanced payments of more than P100 million to port and transport workers for their past services as part of its commitment to comply with the terms of its contract with the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA).

MANILA, Philippines—The row with labor groups and shipping lines had not been settled after all. But Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) officials pushed through nonetheless with the formal turnover of the North Harbor to a private consortium Monday morning.