WORKERS under ABS-CBN Corp.'s entertainment production may be the first ones to go under a planned mass layoff if the media network would not resume its broadcasting operations by August.

An employee of ABS-CBN works in the editing booth at the station headquarters in Manila on May 6, 2020. The shutting down of the Philippines' top broadcaster crosses a dangerous line in eroding the nation's democracy and sends a warning to those who risk angering President Rodrigo Duterte, watchdogs said. / AFP / Ted ALJIBE

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