Senator Robin Padilla is taking up the cudgels for workers of a company who may lose their jobs due to an alleged unlawful redundancy program seeking to dismantle employee unions.
Padilla, in Senate Resolution 868, urged the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resource Development to look into the program by Converge/Metroworks ICT Construction Inc.
“In spite of Constitutional mandates and labor laws, rules and regulations on workers’ protection, there are strong allegations that Converge/Metroworks ICT Construction Inc. is in violation of the said issuances.”
“In spite of Constitutional mandates and labor laws, rules and regulations on workers’ protection, there are strong allegations that Converge/Metroworks ICT Construction Inc. is in violation of the said issuances,” the legislator said in his resolution.
“The company’s management resorted to the redundancy program effective Nov. 20, instead of negotiating for the Collective Bargaining Agreement.”
The resolution quoted members of the union as saying the company’s management resorted to the redundancy program effective Nov. 20, instead of negotiating with them for the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
The lawmaker noted both parties had appeared several times at the Regional Conciliation and Mediation Board of Metro Manila, but have “maintained their respective positions.”
He said a Senate probe in aid of legislation is thus needed to look into the alleged unlawful redundancy program for “the purpose of dismantling employee unions”.
