Labor Dept. orders PLDT to regularize 8,000 workers, pay ₱66M in claims

The Labor Department said on Monday that the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) must regularize its over 8,000 contractual workers and pay P66 million unpaid benefits.

This was in line with Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III rejecting the company’s appeal regarding the Labor Department’s order for it to regularize its contractual workers. Bello said that they rejected the appeal because there was no merit to it.

These are the companies said to engage in labor-only contracting that PLDT must regularize its employees of:

- Activeone Health Inc.

- Archon Consulting and System Services Inc.

- BBS-VP-VPN Allied Services Corporation

- Consultancy, Outsourcing, Recovery and Equivalent Services (CORES) Inc.

- El Grande Messengerial Services Inc.

- Hibizcom Corp.

- JFM Installation and Telecom Services Inc.

- M.D. Tambungui Specialists (MDTS) Inc.

- MG Exeo Network

- Occupational Dental Health Care and Services

- PC Tech

- Pointman Placement Specialist

- Proserve Multi Resources Specialists Inc.

- Searchers and Staffers Corporation

- SPi CRM Inc.

- Unison Computer System Inc.

- Upsight Construction Inc.

These are the companies that were ordered to settle the P66 million in worker’s claims:

- AE Research Exponents Inc.

- Aremay Enterprise

- Best Option Assistance Inc.

- Centennial Technologies and Marketing Corporation

- Comworks Inc.

- Consolidated Management Resources

- Curo Teknika Inc.

- Diars Assistance Inc.

- Goodline Staffers and Allied Service Inc.

- Implicare International Management Resources Inc.

- Information Professionals Inc.

- Iplus Intelligent Network Inc.

- LBP Service Corporation

- Meralco Industrial Engineering Services Corporation

- Pro Tek Telecoms Support Inc.

- Serveflex Inc.

- Sitetel Marketing

- Software Laboratories Inc.

- Tejo Management Services Inc.

- Transbio Incorporated

- Trends and Technologies Service Maintenance Inc.

- We Support Inc.

These companies, according to the Labor Department, made unauthorized wage
deductions towards its employees, did not comply with the minimum wage set
by the department and the 13th month pay law, as well as they did not allow
their workers the benefits they deserve in accordance to what was stated in the
Labor Code.

In effect, PLDT was ordered to stop their contracting activities, and their registrations were cancelled.

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Source: CNN Philippines