CONTRACTUAL employees of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) were directed on Friday morning, June 1, to “claim their regularization” at the company’s human-resources division in Mandaluyong City, the company said in an advisory on Thursday.
The advisory said the regularization is by virtue of a May 30 Writ of Execution issued by the Department of Labor and Employment-National Capital Region (DoLE-NCR).
“Based on the decision of Labor Secretary Silvestre (H.) Bello (III) ordering the regularization of thousands of Contractual Workers in PLDT(,) the Regional Director of DoLE-NCR has issued a writ of execution to this order and has released it May 30, 2018. Thus, subject workers will report for work in PlDT on June 1, 2018,” said the advisory, which also covers “recipients of the DoLE order…and members of the Manggagawa sa Komunikasyon ng Pilipinas (MKP), the PLDT Rank and File Employees Union.”
MKP, according to the advisory, “initiated the legal proceeding aiming the regularization of all contractual employees in PLDT.”
Last Monday, DoLE flagged 20 firms, including PLDT, in a list of “companies engaged and suspected to be engaged in labor-only contracting.”
Sought for comment, PLDT spokesperson Ramon R. Isberto said via email: “Having received the writ of execution from DOLE, we are putting in place a procedure for properly processing the individuals listed in the department order.”
“We are asking the individuals concerned to fill out a personal information sheet. This can be done on paper or through an online form in a website,” he added.
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