By MARYA SALAMAT
The network said it is “not dismissing or retrenching employees.” Instead, it describes the dismissals as an “ongoing process.”
ABS-CBN Defends Firing of 41 Workers (So Far)
Tags: Contractualization
News in Pictures: ABS-CBN Fires More Workers Who Rejected Contractualization
Broadcasting giant ABS-CBN has fired more workers from its so-called “Internal Job Market,” leaders of the workers’ union said Thursday. The number of dismissed workers of ABS-CBN IJM now total 32, up from the 25 since the last firing.
News in Pictures: Workers at KFC Matalino Up in Arms Vs Management
Workers at the KFC branch along Matalino Street in Quezon City hold a picket in front of the fast-food chain to protest unfair labor practices by the management. Among their complaints are contractualization. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva / bulatlat.com)
Sub-Contracting Keeps Women Workers Browbeaten, Underpaid
Contractualization is a scheme that allows capitalists to replace their workforce with ease according to market demands. For the management, this translates to maximization of profits but for the laborers, this system denies them the security and benefits of a regular job while being paid very low wages. By Reyna Mae Tabbada Bulatlat Women workers…
Odd Jobs under the Arroyo administration
BY MARYA G. SALAMAT Bulatlat.com While the unemployed have very limited options under the employment generation plan of the Macapagal-Arroyo administration, employed workers are being battered by labor contractualization and other flexible work arrangements. The Macapagal-Arroyo administration boasts that it is handling the economy well claiming a 6.1 percent growth in the Gross Domestic Product…