FOOTWEAR maker Kentex Manufacturing Corp. heeded a call of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to send a representative during Wednesday’s second mandatory conference but still failed to submit vital documents that would prove its compliance with occupational safety and health and labor standards.

The counsel for Kentex, lawyer Renato Paraiso, explained to the DOLE-National Capital Region (Metro Manila) panel that not a single document has been saved from the fire that gutted the slippers plant and left at least 72 workers dead.

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