Industrial Relations

Workers in Hacienda Luisita yesterday asked the visiting officials of the International Labor Organization (ILO) to also conduct an investigation into the massacre of their farmer colleagues by government security men inside the sprawling estate in Tarlac province nearly four years ago.

Some 100 workers of a garments factory that went on a temporary shutdown more than a week ago barged into the Mactan Economic Zone yesterday morning and held a picket at the gates of their company.

BAUAN, Batangas: Global financial crisis maybe the reason why multinational companies in the light industries sector and different economic processing zone in the region has retrenched most of their employees in the early part of this year, but it’s not the same case with the 234 employees who lost their job last week in this…

The jury is still out on office romance. A Workplace Romance Survey, conducted in the United States in 2006 and covering 493 human resource professionals and 409 employees (for whatever worth it may have, this is like the surveys on who is the leading presidentiable as of a certain date chosen with the result in…

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) will don the role of observer during the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) review of the Philippines’ implementation of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention No. 87.

LOS BAÑOS, LAGUNA—Noting earlier recommendations from the International Labor Organization that remain unheeded by companies, workers from Southern Tagalog called on the world body to spend more time interviewing them during its fact-finding mission.

MANILA, Philippines – With just eight months before the presidential elections, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is now readying its legacy for the new administration.

MANILA, Philippines—In a move to consolidate the gains in the country’s labor relations and industrial peace, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has embarked on a plan to speed up the disposition of pending labor cases.

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Labor and Employment on Saturday said it welcomed the visit of an International Labor Organization mission to probe the country’s compliance with labor rules, noting that the mission would be in consultation with the Philippine government.

MANILA, Philippines — The number of laborers covered by collective bargaining agreements (CBA) in the country has been reduced by more than half in the last five years, a labor organization disclosed today (Sept. 17).

A lawmaker has proposed a day-off with pay for employees registering to vote for the first time.

We go out to the mall. We are entranced by countless displays of the latest models of laptops, mobiles and iPods. With a little push and persuasion from the salesperson, we buy these gadgets with reckless abandon. This consumerist hedonism has prevented us from stopping to think about the social consequences of the entire process…

Henry Sy’s SM Group of Companies was asked to be investigated by a lawmarker due to alleged discrimination and anti-labor policies that prevents regularization of their employees. Ilocos NOrte Rep. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr., said its been the practice of the SM Group for a long time to have an anti-labor contractualization program. Marcos urged…

There is a bill that is progressing in Congress that many of the hospital membership may not even be aware of. This is the House Bill 6532, for House Bills 1025, 2031, 2404, 2453, 2491, 2519, 3609, 4317 and 2961 also known as “An Act Strengthening the Security of Tenure of Workers in the Private…

Sen. Manny Villar yesterday welcomed the high-level fact-finding mission of the United Nations’ (UN) International Labor Organization (ILO) to investigate labor rights abuses, particularly violations of trade union rights in the country.

CEBU, Philippines – The Supreme Court has ordered the officials of a Cebu-based furniture factory to reinstate their former human resource manager after ruling that he was illegally dismissed by the company a few years ago.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine National Police (PNP) assured international and local labor leaders that the Philippines is an ideal place for industrial peace and security.

CEBU, Philippines – The number of notices of strike filed before the National Conciliation and Mediation Board from January to August this year is lesser compared to the same period last year, data from the NCMB show.

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang has assured the International Labor Organization (ILO) that the government will cooperate in the probe into the killing of 92 labor union leaders.

Here’s a side story to the battle that’s going on in Congress between a union group and foreign/local management groups over the security of tenure of private sector workers and stiffer regulation in the much-abused use of temporary labor.

CEBU, Philippines – The management of SPC Power Corporation management is appealing to the employees’ union to be “reasonable with their demands” and to return to the negotiating table without having to threaten the company with a notice of strike.

MANILA, Philippines – Investigators from the International Labor Organization (ILO) are arriving in the next two weeks to look into the killing of 92 labor union leaders.

MANILA, Philippines—The high-level mission of the International Labour Organisation due to arrive on September 22 should investigate violations of the right to unionize at the export zones and industrial estates, Partido ng Manggagawa (Workers’ Party) said Wednesday.

CEBU, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment has assumed jurisdiction over the ongoing labor dispute between the management of the Salcon Power Corporation and its union.

CEBU, Philippines – More than a hundred workers of the Alta Mode garments factory at the Mactan Export Processing Zone started a sit-down protest the other day against the forced leave implemented by management that allegedly discriminates union members.”

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CINCINNATI (AP) – President Barack Obama declared yesterday that modern benefits like paid leave, minimum wage and Social Security “all bear the union label,” as he appealed to unions to help him win the health care fight in Congress.

MANILA, Philippines—The International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations’ arm for labor concerns, is sending a fact-finding mission to the Philippines to investigate complaints of trade-union rights violations in the country.

Together with Union Impresores de Filipinas (UIF) president Alfredo Pullarca and Union Network International-Philippine Liaison Council (UNI-PLC) chairman Angelito Calderon, National Press Club of the Philippines (NPC) legal counsel and auditor Berteni “Toto” Causing administered the oath of office of the newly elected officers of the Kapisanan ng mga Kawani ng Koreo sa Pilipinas (KKKP…

CEBU, Philippines – Hundreds of workers have been retrenched by four garment factories at the Mactan Export Processing Zone, including Metrowear, Mactan Apparel, Fedder Apparel, and Global.