Archive for the ‘Industrial Relations’ Category

Karen Lapitan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – A militant labor leader was almost hit by bullets when two unidentified armed men shot his residence several times Thursday night in Riverside, Calamba City at 9:30 p.m., a labor group reported Friday morning.
The labor leader, identified as Arnold Cerdo, is a staff member of the Cabuyao Workers [...]

Jose C. Sison
Philippine Star
The jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) is separate and distinct from that of the Secretary of Labor and Employment (DOLE). The DOLE is governed by its own rules of procedure on the disposition of labor standards cases. This is illustrated in this case of Sam and Ed.
Sam and Ed [...]

Jose C. Sison
Philippine Star
For the past few days, media are loaded with news reports on anomalies and corrupt practices unearthed mostly by the Commission on Audit (COA), the Constitutional body charged with the duty to “examine, audit and settle all accounts pertaining to revenue, receipts, and expenditures or uses of government funds and properties” (Article [...]

Abigail Kwok
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE) Laid off workers from a restaurant in Quezon City protested outside its main office in West Avenue early Friday morning, calling for a boycott of the restaurant’s products.
Seventy-three workers from Kowloon House who were terminated last September 15, allegedly because of conducting illegal labor protests, gathered outside the restaurant’s main [...]

Aurea Calica
Philippine Star
The Senate has passed on third reading the amendments to the Cooperative Code that would reform and modernize at least 74,809 operational cooperatives in the country.
Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri, chair of the Senate committee on cooperatives, said the amendments will make it easier for people with similar needs or “common bonds of interest” [...]

Judge Gabriel T. Ingles
Cebu Daily News
At the outset, it must be stressed that this is an administrative case for dishonesty, grave misconduct, and falsification of an official document. To sustain a finding of administrative culpability only substantial evidence is required, not overwhelming or preponderant, and very much less than proof beyond reasonable doubt as required [...]

Jose C. Sison
Philippine Star
If control of a private corporation is acquired by the government through one of its agencies, are its employees subject to civil service laws? This is the question answered in this case of Pablo.
Pablo worked with Philippine Air Lines (PAL) from September 1957. PAL was originally incorporated as a private corporation but [...]

Arcie M. Sercado
SC Public Information Office

National Power Corporation (NPC) employees, who were illegally terminated to give way to the re-organization of the corporation in 2002, are entitled to separation pay, backwages, wage adjustments, and other benefits accruing from January 31, 2003 to the date of payment under a validly approved Separation Program.
Thus the Supreme Court [...]

Philippine Daily Inquirer
When my wife filed a case against a big fast-food chain a year ago, a lawyer told me that it could be such a waste of time. He said that if we would like to seek justice, the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) wouldn’t be the right venue because seldom can we find [...]

Jose C. Sison
Philippine  Star

The injury or death of an employee is compensable if it is sustained (1) while performing his official functions (2) at the place where his work requires him to be or if sustained elsewhere (3) he must have been executing an order of his employer. These requirements are illustrated in this case [...]