MANILA — Former employees of national carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) trooped to the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) on Monday to assail the agency’s approval to the outsourcing program that sidelined 2,300 workers last year. Read the rest of this entry »
Ex-PAL women workers assail outsourcing program
March 5, 2012
Protected:
February 11, 2012
Prosecutors fail to pin CJ on SC recall of Fasap case
February 9, 2012
The president of the Flight Attendants and Stewards Association of the Philippines (Fasap) failed to show any direct evidence linking Chief Justice Renato Corona to the Supreme Court en banc’s order recalling an earlier SC ruling on the PAL-Fasap case. Read the rest of this entry »
Lucio Tan, a.k.a. the Grinch
December 12, 2011
THE season will be less than bright for the 2,600 former regular employees of Philippine Airlines (PAL) who found themselves jobless when the Lucio Tan-owned carrier adopted its so-called outsourcing program last October. Read the rest of this entry »
PAL row, occupy Wall Street
November 12, 2011
Rebuild crumbling social contract
At the core of the conflict between Philippine Airlines (PAL) and PAL Employees Association (Palea) is the effort of the airline to manage business freely with maximum flexibility, including its contested prerogative to outsource jobs done by regular and unionized workers. PAL says outsourcing is a legitimate weapon in insuring its own business survival in the fiercely competitive deregulated aviation market. Read the rest of this entry »
Protected:
November 9, 2011
Ecop assails ex-PAL workers for ‘abuses’
November 4, 2011
The Employers Confederation of the Philippines (Ecop) has joined the snowballing call for government action against violent abuses of outsourced employees of Philippine Airlines (PAL). Read the rest of this entry »
Public suffers in PAL strike
November 4, 2011
The ongoing strike by members of the Philippine Airlines (PAL) Employees’ Association (Palea) which has turned rowdy and even out of control of late is getting to be more of a burden to the riding public than to the airline itself. Read the rest of this entry »
Gov’t urged to resolve PAL trouble at NAIA hub
November 3, 2011
The apparent inaction of the government over the supposed intimidation of its former employees on flag-carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) “is not conducive” to business and should be resolved, business groups appealed to the government. Read the rest of this entry »
PAL issues SOS to trade groups amid ‘harassment’
November 2, 2011
Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) cried yesterday for help among local trade groups to press the government for a quicker and more decisive response against what it calls as harassment of private enterprises after the continued picket of its former employees at the Terminal 2 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). Read the rest of this entry »
