An FB writer revealed his disgusting experienceS and those of other co-employees who received physical and verbal maltreatment from high-ranking officers of the company in the creative department.
I think it is time to respect, honor, and protect the rights of creative people who sacrifice their lives and honor just to be able to express their God-given talents.
One noted radio and TV host and now the wife of a politician, would throw video tapes; another threw ball pens; still another struck the neck of one employee with a newspaper; another one was threatened with being beaten up; and the worst, scorned, the officer had the poor employee removed from a production activity thus making him/her lose the job as well as income.
One ex-insider revealed to me that couch casting is a given when an actress aspires for a role, meaning she sleeps with the boss first.
Also, it is important to know if the company had contractuals and for how long. Were they ever made permanent?
When a company is disenfranchised it is important to see its history of operations from all angles since changes need to be done to make the field an honorable industry.
Media needs both creative and administrative individuals who will make the outfit run. Usually, the creatives get the worst end because the admin people are the ones holding the purse or could influence who as to who gets the bigger share of the pie.
Sure, there are economic and political reasons for disenfranchising; but let us not forget the cultural aspect. of how it operated as a company.
It is important to know it the company had a strong grievance committee, if it existed at all, and if it tackled the complaints of the employees on a daily basis. If it did not have any grievance committee then the DOLE has a big problem - why did it allow a company to exist in that manner
The Commission on Human Rights also has a problem - how to institutionalize a grievance committee in all companies in the Philippines.
Keeping quiet on its work history is allowing the above anti-human rights violations to persist in the world of media and pity the next generations of media workers or those in other companies who suffer similar fates. I know one company that enjoys calling its women employees"men" as in |radyo men.|"
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