PEZA assures alliance workers' rights protection

By Anna Leah E. Gonzales

Sep 27, 2021 12:30 am

Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) Director General Charito Plaza clarified that the proposed Alliance for Industrial Peace and Program (AIPP) neither intends to remove jurisdiction over labor disputes from the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) nor aims to prejudice the constitutional and statutory rights of workers in the economic zones.

Plaza made the statement after labor groups expressed concern on the AIPP, noting that this would further restrict union organizing in economic zones.

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