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‘No local order yet on
bus drivers’ pay’

Labor representative Wennie Sancho yesterday said they have not yet received a directive from the Department of Labor and Employment-Manila to implement the fixed and performance-based compensation scheme of drivers and conductors, after a petition was filed by group of bus operators and associations in Luzon before the Supreme Court, recently.

The petition questions the “unconstitutionality” of the DOLE department order 118-12 that provides the rules and regulations and the working conditions of drivers and conductors in the public utility bus, Sancho said.

Earlier, SC released an order preventing DOLE from implementing the compensation scheme but later withdrew it, saying that they want to get the side of the labor department, SC acting spokesperson Gleo Guerra said.

Sancho said the order has a good intention and is really beneficial especially to the unorganized unions in the transport sector but it lacked public consultation.

He also said the order was released without proper dialogs with the sectors involved.

The order is now being followed by operators in Manila and will later be implemented in the provinces after the DOLE will be able to respond to the petition, Sancho said.

The DOLE also has make drivers and conductors understand how the order works to avoid misunderstanding.

It must explain how it works especially to small bus operators with three or five units, if there will be exemptions for them or not, Sancho said.

“These things have to be specified in the department order because there are only a few ‘big time’ bus operators who have the capacity to comply with it while small operators will end up bankrupt,” Sancho added.*LTG

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