DOLE should check BPO, IT sector practices

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EDITORIAL - DOLE should check BPO, IT sector practices (The Freeman) Updated March 20, 2012 12:00 AM Comments (0)

The Department of Labor and Employment should start looking into the practices being employed in the BPO and IT sectors. Many employees in these sectors, being young, are not very familiar with their rights and thus ripe for exploitation.

Reports are in fact growing that there is a growing trend toward contractualization in these sectors, much like the practice being employed in the services and retail industries, where chances for regularization are at best slim.

The situation in the BPO and IT sectors is that with such a vast pool of talent, some companies give their current employees the run around when it comes to proper salaries and the chance to become regular.

Some current employees in some BPO and IT companies are reportedly made to work on mere provisional contracts and just given allowances instead of real salaries. They are kept in this status for as long as they can bear it.

When these employees can no longer bear with this unfair labor practice, they are forced to resign and look for other places of employment, which is really no skin off the backs of their employers because, as stated earlier, there is a vast pool of talent available to replace them.

But what happens is that the skills and talents of these young workers are being exploited. Worse, they are exposed to labor practices that can derail their honesty and idealism and reshape their characters that make them cynical and susceptible to corruption.

To be sure, there are many BPO and IT companies that are very solid and reputable and stick to very high standards of excellence, not only in their service and operations, but also in their methods of employment.
But there are always exceptions. There are always those who find in the tremendous boom in these industries the opportunities to make a killing at the expense of others. It is these unscrupulous operators who give these growth sectors a bad name.

Exploitation of workers is a form of corruption. So if the Department of Labor and Employment is in step with President Aquino’s fight against corruption, then it better start looking into the operations and labor practices in the BPO and IT sectors.

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Tinood jud ni contractual for more than 5 years ing hinay itsapwera ing balik ug kusog hire ug lain salig ky dghan au mglinya inig pangaplay

I hope Tinud on ni

[JPT11]

i hope DOLE should do something about this! and i hope its true.

[genjoy]

Ambot lang, kadugay na ane nga style.hehehe

[jay_ramz]

amen to this..... amen to this ...... subscribe ko ani b...

fyi lang maoi ni contact info sa dole central visayas






2nd Floor, GMC Plaza, MJ Cuenco Avenue corner Legaspi Street 6000 Cebu City
Tel: (032) 253-0638 * Telefax: (032) 416-6418 * E-mail: ro7@dole.gov.ph

[SuperStar]

yeah right...they must

i hope DOLE should do something about this! and i hope its true.

[QwertyAnarchy]

amen to this..... amen to this ...... subscribe ko ani b...

fyi lang maoi ni contact info sa dole central visayas






2nd Floor, GMC Plaza, MJ Cuenco Avenue corner Legaspi Street 6000 Cebu City
Tel: (032) 253-0638 * Telefax: (032) 416-6418 * E-mail: ro7@dole.gov.ph

You can contact Atty. Buenafe Tel# 253-5156.

[J.Abz]

working mostly on all call centers does not have you job security tenure... the moment your account is closed.. you are force to be absorbed to some other accounts or worst case scenario...your status becomes 'floating' until such time that you are given a mere pat in the back resignation thing.....

[Metz]

this will most likely apply to very small centers.

"vast pool of talent available" and "contractualization" will not apply to big BPOs. kamahal ra sa cost sa training ug lisod mangita ug tarong nga agent.

advice for first timers, go for the big BPOs dayon.
maski di pa kaayo ka lami mo english basta confident lang sa interview, you can make it.
google "job interviews" aron you know what to do.
undang sa ug facebook/DOTA/MMO kadyot, pag practice tawon before mangapply hehe.

[snowleopard]

62% ng labor force sa bansa, wala raw Social Insurance | State of the Nation | GMA News Online | The Go-To Site for Filipinos Everywhere

this is a sad reality

[cyraxx]

Unaha usa ang Kana mga Chinese Stores Sa colon and others na dugay na kaayo ang malpractice.