“I own this business. I can do whatever I want!”
“Yung cashier girl na iyan, sobrang replaceable naman iyan eh. Maghanap ka na lang ng bago.”
“Bagger ka lang! Anong ‘benefits, benefits’ ka diyan?!”
Statements and scenarios like those above, while harsh-sounding, are very real. Workers, for employers like that, are nothing but breathing moneymakers, not legitimate human beings who deserve care, and who, by the way, have legal rights according to Philippine law.
As a working student, I experienced a sense of injustice in the workplace. For two months, a company I worked for was paying me one-fifth less than what we had signed in our memorandum of agreement (MOA). It could have …
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