Industrial Relations

CEBU, Philippines – Workers of a lamp shade factory inside the Mactan Export Zone went on a work stoppage early morning yesterday to raise certain grievances.

MANILA, Philippines – A firm selling health insurance plans was ordered closed by the Muntinlupa City government for reportedly committing unfair labor practices.

Malacañang yesterday said the government will do all it can to alleviate the plight of workers despite the limited power of the President to rule on wage adjustments.

The Customs bureau has asked the Department of Finance for a higher hazard pay and medical benefits for X-ray scanning staff exposed to radiation at the worksite.

PRESIDENT Arroyo unveiled a package of non-wage benefits for over a million state workers yesterday, including shuttle services and more scholarship programs for their children and siblings.

The Philippines ranks as the second most dangerous country for trade unionists, and opposition Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero yesterday said the government’s seeming indifference to killings of trade union leaders could trigger more attacks against them.

OLONGAPO City: Some 500 members of cause-oriented groups including workers of the Hanjin Shipyard in Subic Bay Freeport Zone held a peaceful rally to celebrate Labor Day.

President Gloria Arroyo saluted the Filipino workers on the occasion of Labor Day in her speech during the turnover ceremony for the chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines on Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – Lawmakers are seeking measures to provide workers, employers and those retrenched ample benefits and other forms of assistance in the face of the worsening global economic crisis.

Anakpawis party-list Rep. Rafael Mariano yesterday assailed Malacañang for its continuing “no wage hike policy,” stressing “at this time of worsening economic crisis, it is far more just for the working class to demand a wage increase.”

SOME 1.124 million state workers will get pay hikes over the next four years under a P123.8-billion salary package approved by the House appropriations committee.

MANILA, Philippines – A supervisor of a burger chain was stabbed dead Saturday by two workers she suspended for repeatedly reporting to work late in Marikina City.

When a retired government employee is re-employed in another government office, can his previous government service be credited in the computation of his retirement benefit? This is the issue raised in this case of Pepe.

MANILA, Philippines—Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) may soon be provided with compulsory insurance to cover monetary claims or damages awarded to them in the course of doing their jobs.

MANILA, Philippines — An increase in the hiring of casual workers is seen among companies exercising cost-saving measures to combat the global financial crunch, labor experts and economists said on Tuesday.

(Last part) Thus, based from your narration of facts, it would appear that your dismissal from service may be valid under existing laws and jurisprudence especially so that you were given an opportunity to be heard.

Dear PAO, I have been wanting to seek guidance regarding my recent dismissal from work. Please help me. I feel that I have been wronged but I do not know how to proceed and I am currently without funds.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has declared April 21 to May 1, 2009 as International Labor Organization (ILO) Week, Malacañang said Friday.

The Joint Foreign Chambers has urged the government to also allow non-distressed companies, like business process outsourcing firms, to adopt flexible job arrangements to make them more competitive amid the global economic slump.

Foreign companies represented by four major foreign chambers indicated plans for reduced work hours to cope with a worsening global recession.

MANILA, Philippines — Local and foreign firms operating in the country have resorted to cutting employee bonuses and benefits just to keep from laying people off.

This case of Tony, a Filipino seafarer, is an example of the judicial power of the Courts to review and declare as unconstitutional the acts of a co-equal branch like Congress.

MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Edgardo Angara has filed a bill seeking to update the country’s 100-year-old bankruptcy law, saying failure to do so could be harmful to the economy and financial system especially during this time of global financial crisis.

ONCE AGAIN summer is upon us. Typically, companies take advantage of the season to build and renew teams at all levels of the company, executive teams, functional- and cross-functional team building. Then we have all sorts of activities, high ropes, low ropes, indoor and outdoor.

MANILA, Philippines – As the world economy goes into recession resulting in establishment closures, Labor Secretary Marianito D. Roque calls for unity among labor and management when he meets with representatives from the Tripartite Industrial Peace Councils (TIPCs) and region-based Industry Tripartite Councils (ITCs) in the National Capital Region. The Department of Labor and Employment…

The effects of the global crisis on the employment of Filipino workers have bottomed out as displacements due to the crisis stood still with the return to their regular jobs of some 14,021 temporarily laid off workers and those under flexible work arrangements in 53 firms, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) today said.

The transport strike staged by the Alliance of Concerned Transport Operators (ACTO) in protest against excessive fines for traffic violations did not paralyze transportation the whole day yesterday.

The top officials and labor lawyers of the Asian Institute of Management need to take summer classes on labor laws and labor-management relations.

THE Supreme Court has declared as unconstitutional a provision in the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipino Act, which set limits on the salary claim of illegally dismissed workers.

MANILA, Philippines – A seafarer won $26,442.73 in wages for the nine months and 23 days that he would have spent on board ship after the Supreme Court declared as unconstitutional a clause in Republic Act 8042, the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act, limiting the money claims of overseas Filipino workers.