Archive for the ‘Industrial Relations’ Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

Job Tabada
Cebu Daily News
When the military uses its might, it does so to take the challenge of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) leaders who virtually declared war following the muddled Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD), which got discarded by the Filipinos.
A renegotiation has been ruled out by the Arroyo administration, which initially pinned [...]

Marian Z. Codilla
Cebu Daily News
GOVERNMENT agencies have been asked to look into reports that workers of Gaisano Capital South in downtown Cebu City were using children as shields during a strike protesting the department store’s allegedly unfair labor practices.
Councilor Gerardo Carillo said he saw at least three children bearing placards among the picketers when he [...]

Iris C. Gonzales
Philippine Star
The imposition of sanctions on officials of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) who failed to meet their revenue targets have been slow.
According to a congressional committee report entitled “Staying the Course,” the government’s implementation of the Lateral Attrition Act of 2005 has been weak.
“Recommendations to [...]