Industrial Relations

The season of gifts and gift-giving is again upon us. To avoid “temptations” that may turn this holiday custom into a form of corruption, the Labor Department has suspended labor inspections from Dec. 1 to mid-January.

CEBU, Philippines – The management of the Visayan Electric Company yesterday clarified that Casmero Mahilum, the head of the rank-and-file employees union, is no longer an employee of the company.

The Philippines and its ASEAN partners have agreed to work together in the implementation of industrial relations practices as embodied in the ASEAN Industrial Relation Guidelines adopted during the 21st ASEAN Labour Ministers Meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam last May 2010.

CEBU, Philippines – The Visayan Electric Company Employees Union is contemplating to file another notice of strike amidst the alleged defiance of the management to the order of Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz for the payroll reinstatement of the union president.

Manila (30 November) — To revitalize and strengthen the Makati-Pasay Tripartite Industrial Peace Council, the mayors of both cities recently inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the Sampiro Hall of the Makati City Hall.

CEBU, Philippines – The Visayan Electric Company Employees’ Union-ALU reiterated its call for a dialogue with the management after they were able to get 177 signatures from members asking the management to agree to a dialogue to settle their current labor dispute.

If the Bangko Sentral won’t do it, then Congress might  shield consumers from abusive credit card companies.

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Labor and Employment has issued guidelines detailing the exemption of women from a long-standing ban contained in the Labor Code prohibiting them from working at night.

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MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Airlines (PAL) said its planned spin-off affecting more than 2,600 workers is a survival strategy meant to save the jobs of more than 4,000 employees who will be left behind to run the restructured airline.

THE president of the Visayan Electric Company Employees Union (VECEU) has asked Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz to order Veco management for his full reinstatement in the company.

No worker or company need ever be uninformed about core labor standards, workplace conditions, and holiday pay rules again. All they need to do is to turn on a computer, launch the Internet browser, and type and click: http://www.bwc.dole.gov.ph.

MANILA, Philippines—The House committee on civil service and professional regulation approved on Wednesday House Bill No. 28 which seeks to grant security of tenure to casual or contractual employees in the government who have rendered at least 10 years of service.

DALY CITY, California – Over 100 nurses and hospital workers held a picket at the Seton Medical Center in Daly City. They said it is unjust for management to layoff workers during the holiday season.

CEBU, Philippines – The National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) 7th Division encourages the Visayas Clergy Discernment Group (VCDG) to mediate in the dispute between the Visayan Electric Company (VECO) management and the Visayan Company Employees Union (VECEU).

As much as I respect Secretary Ping de Jesus, I must confess that I was very disturbed when he, as a member of the Cabinet, said that his office “would consider” the idea that bus drivers should be given salaries instead of commissions.

“Diven the many issues that are basic to the well-being of the Filipino people such as electricity, water, public transport and toll ways that are not being dealt with by most columnists of mainstream media, I have made it a point to focus on them through this space. But whenever I see issues covered extensively…

As long as people continue to think of Facebook as their personal diary (a personal diary viewable by everyone from your sixth grade best friend to your dentist), there are going to be problems. And, consequently, there are going to be lawsuits, because that’s just how people roll these days.

Press release by the Department of Labor and Employment As the Department of labor and Employment (DOLE) pilot-tests the single entry approach (SEnA) prescribing a 30-day mandatory conciliation-mediation services for the judicious and speedy settlement of all DOLE cases, DOLE-NCR director and concurrent chairman of the Regional Coordinating Council-NCR Raymundo G. Agravante announced the setting-up…

Like most newspapermen, this columnist instinctively sympathizes with the workingman. We share a common fate as modern-day proles. We work for a living—and for someone else. Our capacity to perform certain jobs is all that we can bring to the marketplace.

MANILA, Philippines – Local labor unions must learn to adjust as more companies outsource their services to remain competitive in the global market, an economics expert said in a forum over the weekend.

MANILA, Philippines – The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) plans to summon operators of around 100 bus companies to explain why their units stayed off Metro Manila roads last Monday.

The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), the country’s biggest trade group, threw its support to the decision of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) to restructure the operations of Philippine Airlines (PAL) which the group said considered the welfare of the majority, including the passengers that would be affected by a full-blown…

BUS firms who participated in Monday’s protest strike that left thousand of commuters stranded will be made to answer before the Land Transportation, Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) as to why their licenses should not be revoked.

MANILA, Philippines – Thousands of commuters were stranded in key points in Metro Manila yesterday as public utility buses stopped operations to protest implementation of number coding or the Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP).

Aboitiz Equity Ventures (AEV) won the second best annual report in the Management Association of the Philippines’ (MAP) First Best Annual Reports Awards for 2002, participated in by 29 listed companies in the Philippine Stock Exchange. AEV chief operating officer Erramon Aboitiz received the award on behalf of the company during the recent awards night…

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Labor’s decision allowing the retrenchment of 2,600 Philippine Airlines workers should not be considered as a “green light” by other companies to violate labor rights, particularly contracting out jobs, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said.

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines toppling India as the world’s top destination for offshore business process outsourcing (BPO)? Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago thinks so, drawing from a recent visit to India where the industry was supposedly abuzz about the Philippines surging past the South Asian nation in five years.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz yesterday said that the pay rules governing a regular holiday, as well as core labor standards apply to all workers in the private sector on Nov. 16, 2010, being a national holiday in celebration of Eid’l-Adha which President Aquino declared.