The Democratic Association of Labor Organization has requested the Serve the People’s Movement Association Inc., to investigate what it called the rampant dismissal of labor cases filed at the Regional Arbitration Branch VI of National Labor Relations Commission and NLRC Commission, Cebu City by employees/laborers.

In a March 13 letter, to SPMI President Jovito Berdin, a copy of which was furnishedthe DAILY STAR, DALO president, Alan Gozon said the complaints lodged at the NLRC officers are from workers who were unjustly dismissed by their employers.

Based on actual experience, Gozon said, illegal dismissal cases and labor standard cases filed by the workers at NLRC RAB VI were dismissed or decided unfairly in favor of the employers.

This, despite the fact that grounds for their dismissal were not proven and not based on groundsprovided by the Labor Code of the Philippines, Gozon said.

He said DALO hopes that SPMI, an anti-corruption unit of the Office of the Ombudsman, can help the workers attain social justice as the dismissal of cases has been happening for so long and they have factual information to prove this.*

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