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Customs personnel at NAIA mull not reporting for work


MANILA, Philippines - In a last-ditch effort to compel airline carriers to pay their overtime services, Bureau of Customs (BOC) personnel at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) will stop work after 5 p.m. on weekdays and will not report for work during Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

The customs employees said the Board of Airline Representatives (BAR) has not paid their overtime work for the last 16 months.

BAR First Vice-Chairman and Delta Air country manager Steven Crowdey wrote BOC Commissioner Angelito Alvarez, expressing their concern regarding unverified reports that Customs employees in Naia are planning to go on mass leave, intent on disrupting international flight operations outside the regular hours of work (8 a.m.-5 p.m.) for government employees.

“We have reasons to believe and therefore allege that the intended mass leave is in retaliation for a recent decision of the Court of Appeals favoring BAR on the overtime issue filed by the BOC on its October 26, 2010 promulgation,” Crowdey said.

“If the threatened mass leave results in disruptions of international gateways, the BoC personnel’s actions will directly and adversely affect not only our balikbayan and overseas Filipino workers but also foreign visitors and investors,” Crowdey said.

He added that such scenario will once again put the Philippines in a bad light and will be a setback in the promotion of the tourism industry, a flagship sector of the Aquino Administration.

Crowdey told Alvarez that the threatened mass leave, in light of its obvious purpose, constitutes an illegal strike and BAR will not hesitate to take legal remedies against them, including appropriate civil actions for damage to recover any and all losses resulting from the disruption of the operations of international airports.

Crowdey has urged Alvarez to take appropriate action to prevent the threatened mass leave of the BOC personnel by exercising its power of control and supervision over the officers and personnel assigned at the Naia.

The BAR’s letter was also sent to Collector Tess Roque, head of the Passengers and Customer Relations of the BOC at the Naia.

Earlier, Tourism Secretary Alberto Lim had suggested that the BOC adopt a work shift, which is done in all airports with 24-hour operations, to avert confusion and possible backlash from passengers using the Naia.

Air Traffic Controllers, Aviation Security Guards of the National Police, the Naia aircraft operations division, quarantine and immigration, including porterage and other services have adopted the 24-hour shift system for years as a concession to the special nature of their jobs at the airport. This system has also been adopted by all airports rendering 24-hour service.

Lim called on the Department of Finance and the BoC to resolve once and for all who should shoulder the payment for overtime services of Customs workers at Naia. Lim said such delays may further discourage both the airline businesses and investors to do business in the Philippines.

Some sectors have urged the BOC to adopt the tack of the Bureau of Quarantine and Immigration, which had successfully lobbied Congress to pass a law exempting them from the Civil Service Commission’s limitation on overtime services after office hours.