Industrial Relations

Speculations are rife that Philippine Airlines is for sale. The business sections of Manila dailies are replete with stories of tycoons and taipans casting a covetous eye on PAL.

A week before it spins off its non-core businesses on Oct. 1, flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) said on Saturday that it will temporarily reduce the number of selected domestic flights by 30 percent and international flights by 12 percent.

Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo reportedly advises the Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA). Was it on his counsel that they blocked the roads leading to the Manila International Airport last Monday? That planking inconvenienced not only passengers of PAL, but of other international and domestic airlines as well. Traffic snarled for hours in southern Metro…

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) has declared as illegal the Philippine Airlines’ (PAL) retrenchment of 1,400 flight attendants in 1998.

Malacañang expressed dismay over the refusal of some transport groups to heed warnings for them to forego with their transport strike while claiming that the protest was a big failure and has not disrupted public transport.

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court affirmed a decision tagging as illegal the Philippine Airlines’ (PAL) retrenchment of 1,400 cabin crew personnel in 1998.

THE Palace on Thursday warned transport groups there will be “consequences” on their franchises if they push through with their planned strike on Sept. 19.

CEBU, Philippines – Cebu Archbishop and incoming president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines Jose Palma will push for the creation of a labor commission in a meeting with bishops on Tuesday.

Dear PAO, I worked as a project base system engineer for two and a half years for an agency which deployed me to a company to which the former has a contract.

Redundancy is one of the authorized causes for the dismissal of an employee. It exists where the services of an employee are in excess of what is reasonably demanded by the actual requirements of the enterprise. This case of Manny explains when it can be considered as a just cause for dismissal.

DAVAO CITY, Sept. 13 (PIA) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is optimistic to sustain this zero strike situation until the end of this year.

The Court of Appeals (CA) has allowed flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) to pursue its damage suit seeking to collect more than P730 million compensation from the Airline Pilots Association of the Philippines (ALPAP) who went on strike in 1998 as the country celebrated its centennial.

THREE service providers of the Philippine Airlines (PAL) that are expected to absorb workers the airline company will lay off have overlooked labor rules, the company’s union said on Thursday.

WHILE nearly all collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) registered in 2009 had union security clauses, only half of the CBAs had provisions ensuring workers’ security of tenure, data from the Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics (BLES) show.

MANILA, Philippines – Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) has obtained a $50-million (about P2.1 billion) loan from European bank Credit Suisse to finance its outsourcing program which will take effect on October 1.

MANILA, Philippines — Some 100 employees from five plants of a softdrink giant staged a protest Tuesday at its head office in Makati City.

It often happens that when an outstanding worker is promoted to become a supervisor, the company loses a good worker and gains a poor supervisor. The main reason for this failure is that supervising demands an additional set of skills that still needs to be developed in the newbie supervisor. In some cases, the person…

LOSING a job for whatever reason is not fun, albeit painful. Employees who are laid off or fired experience stress due to: • Loss of income • Loss of capability to pay for immediate financial needs • Feeling of betrayal • Uncertainty of the future • Feeling of disrespect • Feeling of unfair treatment •…

Malacañang on Saturday admitted it is still worried over the continued uncertainty of whether workers affected by the spinoff of Philippine Airlines’ non-core businesses will sign up with the flag carriers’ new service providers.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Airlines (PAL) has commenced implementation of its spin-off/outsourcing program by sending individual separation letters to about 2,600 workers from the airline’s catering, airport services and call center reservations units.

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Airlines (PAL) said yesterday it is ready for any threat by its labor union as Transportation and Communications Secretary Manuel Roxas III reminded PAL to prepare a contingency plan in view of a possible strike by members of the Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA).

Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) had started a company-wide information drive about the spin-off program after its workers’ union rejected management’s offer for a dialog.

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang has appealed to the Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) not to go on strike and instead go through the proper legal processes to settle their dispute with the national flag carrier.

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Airlines (PAL) said yesterday they will commence a company-wide information campaign about its outsourcing program after its workers’ union rejected management’s offer for a dialogue.

WASHINGTON D.C. – The United States Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EOCC) said 4 Filipina nurses terminated last year by a Baltimore hospital for speaking Tagalog were victims of discrimination.

In illegal dismissal cases, the employer who interposes the defense of resignation has the burden to prove that the employee indeed voluntarily resigned. This is the principle applied in this case of Lynn.

Can past infractions of an employee which have already been adequately penalized be still used as bases in taking disciplinary action against him if he commits another similar infraction? This is the issue raised by Gardo in his case.

MALACAÑANG yesterday affirmed a decision to support Philippine Airlines’ (PAL) outsourcing plans, rejecting a union appeal. The decision came as the flag carrier announced a loss of $10.6 million for the quarter ending in June, which it blamed on increasing fuel prices and events abroad.

Dear PAO, Good day po! I would like to inquire if an employee with a supervisory level position is entitled to a legal holiday premium pay. Because our company pays a legal holiday premium pay to our employees which is equivalent to daily rate for a legal holiday that falls on a Saturday/Sunday except for…

Under Article 282 (b) of the Labor Code, the services of a regular employee may be terminated for gross and habitual negligence. Can an employee however be dismissed for gross negligence even if it is not habitual? This is answered in this case of Mando.