Coca-Cola Cebu is set to retrench the workers following the termination of their contract with manpower agency Exeltech Manpower and Services Incorporated. However, the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights noted that the retrenchment actually comes following an order from the Department of Labor and Employment to regularize the workers, calling the move a “naked display of corporate greed.”
By BULATLAT Government employees occupying non-plantilla positions and whose security of tenure depends on a contract of service are commonly identified as contractual, casuals, co-terminus, Memorandum of Agreement employees, or talents. Today, they are pressing the Aquino Administration to change their status and make them regular. In a rally today at the Plaza Salamangca, Taft…
Two hundred contractual workers of the Korean-owned Hanjin Garments, Inc. staged their first strike. But the police tried to violently disperse their picket line three times, the most recent attempt was last February 6, which resulted in injuries to more than 30 workers and the arrest of four leaders and supporters. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA LABOR…