{"id":50161,"date":"2015-05-21T22:57:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T14:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50161"},"modified":"2015-05-21T22:57:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T14:57:50","slug":"solon-dole-knew-kentex-hired-illegal-subcontractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/21\/solon-dole-knew-kentex-hired-illegal-subcontractor\/","title":{"rendered":"Solon: DOLE knew Kentex hired illegal subcontractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49478\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/valenzuela-fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49478\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/valenzuela-fire-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"valenzuela city fire (photo: dennis datu \/ twitter)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/valenzuela-fire-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/valenzuela-fire.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">valenzuela city fire (photo: dennis datu \/ twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) knew that Kentex Manufacturing illegally subcontracted almost 200 workers from the CJC Manpower Services, according to a lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, DOLE-NCR labor compliance officer Engineer Joseph Vedaste admitted that he knew that CJC, which was not registered with DOLE, was a subcontractor for the firm.<\/p>\n<p>Despite knowledge of the illegal subcontraction,\u00a0House labor and employment committee\u00a0chair Davao City Rep. Karlo Alexei Nograles said that DOLE still issued a compliance certificate to Kentex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should not have issued a compliance certificate because Kentex entered into labor-only contracting which is an illegal and unlawful activity,\u201d Nograles said \u00a0as quoted in a Philippine Daily Inquirer report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he (Vedasto) had only verified with the Department of Labor and Employment that CJC Manpower Agency was not registered with DOLE\u2026 that is presumed already a violation of labor code and that is already presumed that Kentex entered into a labor-only contracting which is unlawful and illegal,\u201d\u00a0the lawmaker added.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing also revealed that the slipper factory did not have a fire safety compliance certificate from the Bureau of Fire Protection.<\/p>\n<p>An independent fact-finding mission also revealed that the employees of the factory were exposed to occupational safety hazards.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) knew that Kentex Manufacturing illegally subcontracted almost 200 workers from the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":49478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}