PAL pilots made to reapply for jobs

PAL pilots made to reapply for jobs

MANILA (Reuters): Striking pilots of Philippine Airlines Inc.
(PAL) said yesterday they were returning to work but the airline
told them they would have to reapply for a job as new employees.

"All striking officers and members of ALPAP are returning to
work effective at 11 a.m (10 a.m. Jakarta time) of this day, 26
June, 1998," Airline Pilots Association of the Philippines
president Sotico Lloren said in a letter to PAL.

About 600 pilots went on strike three weeks ago to protest the
forced redundancy of one of their members.

On June 7, the government told them to go back to work and for
PAL to take them back, but the pilots said their lawyers only
received the order on June 25. Under the order, the pilots were
told to go back to work within 24 hours of its receipt while PAL
had to take them back under the same terms and conditions prior
to the strike which started on June 5.