May 1 is observed as labor day and it is a regular national public holiday in the Philippines to honor the Filipino workers. Most labor groups and other cause-oriented groups made used of this opportune time to dramatize their gripes on the malpractices of the management of the companies which they are working with.
Most of their trending issues were on inadequate wage, failure on collective bargain agreement, excessive working time, among others. These kinds of problems were already deep rooted since time immemorial, but no solutions yet ever attained. The companies or agencies concerned had their own side too. They had their own reasons why they couldn't meet the demands of their workers or laborers. Management-wise, they're adopting a contractual mode of employing or hiring their workers or laborers to save cost or expenditures on retirement based on the length of services rendered by an employee. With this issue, the security of tenure and the security of earnings of every worker are at stake. This is one of the main issues in today's activity of the labor groups and unions being tackled and discussed on what possibility this could be remedied.
