“The employment status of a person is defined and prescribed by law and not by what the parties say it should be.”
Tags: Contractualization
Tanduay workers fighting for what is due them
“We love our jobs that’s why we want to have security of tenure as regular workers.”
Health workers call for wage hike, decry contractualization, privatization of health services
“The Aquino administration has never increased our salaries, and worse, the number of contractual health workers increased.”
‘Spare us from outsourcing’ – bank employees
“This is about the future of our families and the future of the next generation’s bank employees.”
Bank employees raise red flag on HSBC outsourcing scheme
“This anti-worker scheme, implemented by the bank with the connivance of BSP, only favors employers by saving on labor cost.”
Health workers dance vs privatization, contractualization
Health workers from various regions joined the protest against the privatization of the Philippine Orthopedic Center, and for wage hikes.
Workers form Aquino Resign alliance
“Mamasapano is just the tipping point for many workers. We want Aquino removed for pressing down wages, promoting contractual employment, violating workers’ rights to form unions and hold strikes, and other crimes.”
‘Union is workers’ potent weapon vs attacks on wages’ — KMU
Less than one in every ten wage and salary workers in the Philippines belong to a union. And of these few unionists, even fewer, only 12 percent, have collective bargaining agreements, which give them slightly better wages and work condition than those prescribed by law.
The worsening ‘toxic’ work condition of Filipino nurses
There are 200,000 unemployed nurses in the country. Yet those who work in government and private hospitals are overworked and underpaid.
Contractualization in public sector, rampant and anti-worker – workers union
“Back in 2010, there were at least 1.4 million workers, where 22 percent of the total government workers who are either contractuals or job orders, but are no longer any data available on contractualization as the Civil Service Commission has ceased requiring government offices to submit copies of contracts.”
Solons want probe on ‘labor code violations’ by GMA Network
“I could say that we don’t have the dignity of labor. People who work at GMA often jested that talents are second-class citizens.”