ORGANIZED labor has called for the revival of the power vested on the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) secretary to inspect factories and workplaces without notice to ensure employers’ compliance with labor standards, particularly on health and safety in the workplace.
The Association of Labor Unions (ALU) and the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) made the call in the wake of the massive fire that gutted the three-story building of Housing Technology Industry (HTI) inside the Cavite Export Processing Zone in Gen. Trias City, Cavite that left 104 workers injured, some of them in critical condition from severe burns.
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