DOLE order to regularize PLDT workers ‘not subject to any condition’

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) clarified on Wednesday that an order for PLDT Inc. to regularize workers was “not subject to any condition.”

In a clarificatory order, the DOLE wrote that "any act or condition imposed that frustrates or tends to frustrate the order to regularize is contumacious and shall be dealt with in accordance with law."

The telco claimed last week that stopping its sub-contracting activities will shut down its labor contractors, with thousands of workers losing their jobs.

 

Signed by Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, the order referred to a January 10 resolution directing PLDT to regularize more than 7,000 employees and an April 24 resolution affirming the decision.

In the process of reviewing the status of employees involved, PLDT expressed its intent to contest the department order.

PLDT chief corporate services officer Ray Espinosa said in June during company’s annual stockholders’ meeting that the order was not in accordance “with law, jurisprudence, and evidence presented.” —VDS, GMA News