Jollibee, Dole Philippines, and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company were among the top 3,377 companies found to be continuing to violate the illegal labor-only contracting arrangements, the Labor department said Monday.
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said they had already submitted the list of establishments that violated President Rodrigo Duterte’s order that he signed on May 1 that clamped down on illegal contracting and ensuring worker rights to security of tenure.
He told reporters the list was culled from the result of the inspections of 99,526 establishments from June 2016 to April 2018.
“We are now providing you the top 20 non-compliant companies according to the number of workers that need to be regularized from a list of 3,377 non-compliant establishments involving 224,852 workers from various parts of the country,” Bello said.
Among the top violators were Jollibee Food Corp. with 14,960 affected workers, Dole Philippines Inc. with 10,521, and the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company with 8,310.
The other companies engaged in labor-only contracting were Philsaga Mining Corp. with 6,624 affected workers; General Tuna Corp. with 5,216; Sumi Phils Wiring System Corp. with 4,305; Franklin Baker Inc. with 3,400; Pilipinas Kyohritsu with 3,161; Furukawa Automotive System Phil. Inc. with 2,863; and Magnolia Inc. with 2,248 affected workers.
Also, KCC Property Holdings Inc. with 1,802 affected workers, Sumifru Philippines Corp. with 1,687; Hinatuan Mining Corp. with 1,673; KCC Mall De Zamboanga with 1,598; Brother Industries (Philippines) Inc. with 1,582; Philippine Airlines and PAL Express with 1,483; Nidec Precision Philippines Corp. with 1,400; Peter Paul Phil. Corp. with 1,362; Dolefil Upper Valley Corp. with 1,183; and SOLE-Stanfilco with 1,131 affected workers. These were all included in the preliminary list submitted to Malacañang on May 25, 2018.
“We submitted a list of violators to the President not to put them in a bad light,” Bello said.
“It is just to emphasize the concern not only of the President but also of our department to respect the security of tenure of our workers. We are not doing this to fight management because we look at business as a partnership between labor and management.”
Bello said the list was just an initial report to the President, and considering the labor inspections covered only a fraction of the more than 900,000 establishments nationwide.