Tambuling Batangas Publication July 04-10, 2018 Issue | Página 6

Jollibee...

A father of two elementary school kids and
a sole breadwinner, Hisanan found it hard to move
out from his job after being abruptly terminated
on the eve of June 17, his day off from work. He
and fellow contractual workers in their agency
were supposed to be sacked by June 30.

“Of course, when I got laid off, I was
disheartened and felt weak. I didn’t know what to
do when I got home. My daughter then asked me,
‘You don’t have a job now, what will happen? We
don’t have anything to buy Jollibee now.’ Jolibee
was her favorite,” he told in an interview with
Bulatlat.

Hisanan was shocked when he learned that
he was terminated, even after working for more
than three years and receiving recognitions for his
services in the fast food giant.

“I never expected it to happen to me, I told
myself, since I received many awards honoring
my loyalty and service. I loved my job more than
myself. I was never absent [from work],” he said.

The main commissary provides logistics
services to Jolibee and other subsidiaries such as
Chowking, Greenwich, Burger King, Mang Inasal
and Red Ribbon.
Jolibee ordered to regularize workers

On April 4, Henry John Jalbuena,
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Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)
National Capital Region director, said in a press
statement that they ordered the regularization of
about 6,482 workers by two contractors of Jolibee.

It also ordered the fast food corporation to
refund more than P15 million (over USD 280,000)
of “illegally collected payments” from “Coop
Share, Coop Christmas Paluwagan Fund, and
Coop Savings Fund” to 426 affected workers.”

Further, it also instructed five of Jollibee’s
contractors to return around P4 million (about
P75,000) “unlawful wage deductions, bonds,
donations, shares and other illegal payment
collections” to 412 workers.

In response, JFC said it only deals
with “reputable service contractors” and that
it maintained its compliance with the DOLE
Department Order (DO) No. 174 – the government
guidelines on contracting and sub-contracting
which prohibits labor-only contracting.

“In compliance with regulations, we only
deal with reputable Service Contractors that have
been duly accredited and registered with DOLE.
We have been cooperating and will continue to
cooperate with DOLE,” JFC said in a statement.

However, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello
III released on May 28 a list of top 20 Philippine
PH hosts ASEAN Confab to advance
gender mainstreaming in the region
Ambassador Rosario G. Manalo, Women’s Rights Expert, UN Committee on CEDAW, and former Philippine Representative to the
ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights discusses the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW) and its recommendations relevant to ASCC
SSS...
comprises majority of our investment power, performed well but
was tapered by the fair value loss on government bonds” he said.

Dooc added that SSS had also no programmed
Education Assistance Loan Program (EALP) counterpart funding
in first quarter 2018.

“But we have high hopes that the proposed amendments
to the Social Security Law of 1997 would be passed by the end of
this year which will allow expansion of investment powers of the
Social Security Commission. Combined with favorable market
conditions, we are optimistic that investments and other income
of the pension fund will show positive growth,” he added.

Benefit payments which is a primary expenditure
of the pension fund, increased in the first quarter of the year
to P46.22 billion following the 3.85 percent jump in benefit
payouts. Benefit payments for the period rose to P44.24 billion
DEED OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE
Notice is hereby given that the estate of the late BENEDICTA A.
PADILLAwho died on May 01, 2018, at Brgy. Bunggo, Calamba
City, Laguna, Leaving that Bank account maintained with
BANCO DE ORO UNIVERSAL BANK Branch of Calamba
Crossing – North Branch in the amount of Php 96,412.42plus
interest accruing, has been extrajudicially settled by her heir
ROLANDO B. PADILLA and ROBIN A. PADILLA, as per
Doc. No. 500; Page No. 101; Book No. CXVIII; Series of 2018;
Notary Public Atty. MACARIO A. AGOSILA
Tambuling Batangas
June 27, July 4, 11, 2018
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from P42.60 billion in the same three-month period last year.
Payouts for retirement was the highest at P25.46 billion, followed
by death benefit payouts at P13.70 billion, maternity benefit at
P1.77 billion, disability benefit at P1.65 billion, funeral grant at
P1 billion, and sickness benefit at P649 million.

Operating expenses of the pension fund reduced
to P1.98 billion from the P2.18 billion in the previous year
following the 41.3 percent drop in maintenance costs and other
operating expenses compared to the same period last year due to
the hiring of temporary personnel.

Dooc assured its members and pensioners that the
agency is financially stable and well-managed. SSS assets in
January to March 2018 increased by P4.96 billion to P509.83
billion due to the continuous growth in investment level and cash
equivalents despite the decrease in other receivables.
He explained that total investments of the pension fund,
representing 91.4 percent of the total assets, went up by P4.94
billion due to placements in treasury bonds, time deposits,
equities investments, and new salary loans releases totaling
P5.16 billion. The increases were slightly tapered by the decline
in housing loans, corporate notes and bonds due to maturities.

“I am hoping that the positive performance of the
agency especially in increasing its collection will continue
until the end of the year. Moreso, we have relaunched the Loan
Restructuring Program last April 2018. So this will surely hasten
collections from past due salary loans. Strengthened collection
efforts will lead to higher collections. I am confident that SSS
will have enough funds to pay for current benefits and privileges
of our members and pensioners,” Dooc said.
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corporations engaged in labor-only contracting
in which JFC topped with 14,960 contractual
workers.

DOLE defines labor-only contracting
as “an arrangement where the contractor or
subcontractor merely recruits, supplies, or places
workers to perform a job, work, or service for a
principal.”

During the protest, laid off workers
also launched their #BEEastMode campaign,
urging Filipinos and other people worldwide to
temporarily stop patronizing JFC products.

Rogelio
Magistrado,
president
of
the Samahang Manggagawa Jollibee Foods
Corporation (SM-JFC) appealed to the public to
avoid buying products of JFC and its affiliates and
subsidiaries until JFC fully implements the DOLE
order to regularize its contractual workers and to
reinstate the terminated workers.

“We are here to show to the company,
Jollibee Food Corporation, that the illegally
terminated workers strongly call to be regularized
and reinstated because of their long-time service,”
Magistrado said.

“We have also invested much to help this
corporation to develop and succeed but he [Tony
Tan Caktiong, founder of Jolibee] would not
comply with the government’s order,” he added,
citing the DOLE order to regularize them.
MAKATI CITY --The Philippines is currently hosting a
conference that is aimed at having a more gender responsive
policies and programs in the ASEAN region.

Around 100 delegates from the ASEAN Member
States (AMS) are currently participating in the “Senior
Officials Conference on Gender Mainstreaming in the
ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Sectoral
Bodies” that is being held from June 27 to 29, 2018 at the
Dusit Thani Hotel, Makati.

Led by the ASEAN Committee on Women (ACW),
through its Philippine focal point, the Philippine Commission
on Women (PCW), the conference tackles internationally-
recognized women’s issues that are relevant to the mandates
of ASCC sectoral bodies.

The delegates are expected to outline possible
strategies in addressing the priority women and gender issues
in the ASEAN which can form part of an ASCC Action Plan
on Gender Mainstreaming.
During the opening ceremony yesterday, PCW Chairperson
Rhodora M. Bucoy who is the current chair of the ASEAN
Ministerial Meeting on Women (AMMW) said the event
is an opportunity for the Philippines to share with other
ASEAN Member States the mechanisms that have been
institutionalized relative to mainstreaming GAD.

“This is also an opportune time for the Philippines
to learn from the best practices of our neighboring countries
to better improve our current efforts and continue what we
have achieved in the past,” Bucoy said.

“By working together, we can establish a strong
fabric of the Community that binds us to achieve gender
equality and the empowerment of all women and girls,
which is Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Number 5.
Inclusive Society promotes high quality of life, “ Bucoy
added.

At the event, the ASEAN Progress Report on
Women’s Rights and Gender Equality was unveiled, where
key issues that may impede women’s ability to contribute to
the ASEAN economic integration were identified.

Governments were urged to ensure that issues of
concern to women, such as violence in all settings and in all
forms must be eliminated through legislation and programs.

In the report, authors also concluded that women’s
full political participation is much needed for gender issues
to be placed at the center of an institution’s political agenda.

The event is part of the three-part series of
conferences to support the development and implementation
of gender mainstreaming initiatives across all sectoral
bodies in the three ASEAN pillars. It is part of the ACW’s
Work Plan for 2016-2022. The conference for the ASEAN
Economic Community and the ASEAN Political-Security
Community are slated to be held in November 2018 and in
2019 respectively.

The Conference is organized by the PCW in
partnership with the Commission on Higher Education
(CHED), Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC),
Civil Service Commission (CSC), Department of Foreign
Affairs (DFA), Department of Health (DOH), Department of
Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Department of
Education (DepEd), Department of Labor and Employment
(DOLE), Department of Social Welfare and Development
(DSWD), National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC),
National Youth Commission (NYC), Office of Civil Defense
(OCD), Office of Cabinet Secretary (OCS), Presidential
Communications Operations Office (PCOO), and Technical
Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) with
support from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office
(PCSO). (PIA-NCR)