Industrial Relations

PERSIDA ACOSTA Dear PAO, I was hired as a supervisor in a manufacturing company here in Batangas early this year under probationary status. We were actually 2 supervisors hired at the same time. After 5 months and 2 weeks, we were informed by the admin manager that our contract ended and we will not be considered…

cxA retraction does not necessarily negate an earlier declaration. Retractions are looked upon with disfavor and do not automatically exclude the original statement or declaration. This is the general principle applied in this case of a labor union (SMMSC).

Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz yesterday announced that a looming strike of more than 280 teachers and employees of the Wesleyan University in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija was averted after the DOLE’s National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) conducted a series of conciliation and mediation conferences that settled the worker’s dispute with the school…

ANOTHER road accident in-
 volving buses claimed the life of an innocent citizen. Same sickening circumstances: bus drivers racing each other then running away from the scene of an accident they themselves caused.

TWO events last week mirrored the Filipino’s utter lack of discipline and the state of corruption in the country today.

Thousands of workers and activists took to the streets yesterday to protest the government’s labor export policy and to demand higher wages amid rising prices of basic commodities as a major labor group said the series of protests may lead to the possibility of targeting the ouster of President Aquino.

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Retrenchment rightly applies if individual companies are suffering from financial losses, but not when it becomes pandemic. In which case, the economy is experiencing a recession. Moreover, the term is more of a euphemism than a candid admission that the employee will be terminated from the service, and the valid reason given by the Labor…

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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA) could no longer go on strike as the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) had ruled the union’s dispute with management is subject to compulsory mediation, Malacañang asserted yesterday.

A network of human rights advocates vowed on Friday to support a looming labor strike by Philippine Airlines union members, saying that Malacañang’s ruling allowing the PAL management to get subcontractors for its non-core businesses undermines workers’ rights.

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA) vowed to challenge before the Supreme Court Malacanang’s decision to uphold the outsourcing plan at the national flag carrier.

Philippines (PNA) – As a prime exporter of processed fish products, the fishing and canning industry in the Zamboanga Peninsula has adopted its own voluntary code of good practices in pursuit of the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DoLE’s) reform agenda on industry self-governance.

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MANILA, Philippines (2nd UPDATE) – The Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) has filed the official results of its strike ballot at the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) Friday morning.

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Malacañang gave its nod to the plan of local carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) to spin-off 3 non-core units that would result in job losses.

CEBU, Philippines – The National Clergy Discernment Group (NCDG) sent a position letter to the Office of the President on what it said was unjust treatment of the Visayan Electric Company (VECO) against some Visayan Electric Company Employees Union (VECEU) members.

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State pension fund Government Service Insurance System’s (GSIS) thrift bank unit GSIS Family Bank said it has resolved issues with its employees union, following the recent signing of a collective-bargaining agreement (CBA).

Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz has approved and signed the rules of procedure of the single entry approach (SEnA), an administrative mechanism aimed at providing a speedy, impartial, inexpensive, and accessible settlement procedure to all labor issues or conflicts, thereby preventing them from turning into full-blown disputes.

Dear PAO, I am 19 years old and I am currently working as a service crew for a fast-food chain. My work schedule lasts for nine to 10 hours but my salary is so small.

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THE Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (Palea) wants the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to order the management of Philippine Airlines (PAL) to start negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement (CBA).

Year 2011 is fraught with immense challenges to the Aquino administration amid developments unfolding in the global landscape and the industrial relations area. Employers, for their part, are hounded by various issues that pose challenges to Philippine businesses. Some of the major concerns of employers are job creation, labor law reforms and greening businesses.

MANILA, Philippines – Unrest is hounding Philippine Airlines anew after its employees on Monday filed a formal notice to go on strike due to management’s refusal to bargain.

A Filipino seafarer who suffered a slipped disk while serving aboard an international vessel has received P3.1 million in disability claims after a conciliation process.

BHUBANESHWAR, India (AP) — Indian police detained two people after an angry mob of fired workers burned to death a senior executive of a steel factory, an official said Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – The labor department has settled a 2-month labor dispute at San Miguel Foods, Inc.,with labor and management inking a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA).

KORONADAL — The militant labor union that in the last decade represented the workers at fruit giant Dole Philippines, Inc. (Dolefil) was overwhelmingly beaten in the company’s union certification election, an official from the regional Department of Labor and Employment office announced yesterday.

For the third quarter of its fiscal year ending December, flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) reported posting a modest gain of $15.1 million, an improvement over the previous year’s same quarter total comprehensive loss of $22.9 million.