The Department
of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Aklan is “hands off” on the subject of the employers
to employees influence on voting.
This is because to
intervene on the issue of employers compelling their workers to vote for the
candidates they are endorsing is no longer within the scope of their task.
According to
DOLE Aklan Provincial Director, Bediolo Salvacion, the labor code does not
cover the intervention regarding this matter.
Instead it is
the COMELEC’s responsibility to hold a certain employer accountable for the
clear violation of an individual’s right as a voter.
Salvacion
however said that if an employer dismisses an employee for the reason that the
latter did not vote for the former’s supported candidate, then it is the time
that DOLE will take action.
The Labor Code,
he said, strictly prohibits the removal of workers without a valid reason.
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