Court sides with PLDT; Malacañang ‘saddened’

Telecommunications firm PLDT Inc. has won a reprieve in its battle against the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) over the regularization of contractual workers.

The telco, in a disclosure on Monday, said it had received a copy of a July 31, 2018 Court of Appeals (CA) decision modifying Labor department orders to provide direct employment to 7,344 workers from 38 third party contractors.