For ABS-CBN, Six to 16 Years of Service to the Company Does Not Seem to Matter
Published on September 11, 2010
Despite the seven years her labor case took before being resolved at the DOLE, and despite what she went through with her termination, Hidalgo said she was still shocked at having lost her job. Her desk editors and immediate superiors had reportedly liked her work, enough to give her assignments and recommend her for regularization. “I cannot understand why…I gave ABS-CBN my service, love, loyalty,” Hidalgo said.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Bulatlat.com
MANILA — In 2007, Gabby Lopez, the head of broadcasting giant ABS-CBN, publicly commended their reporter Wheng Hidalgo in front of other network employees for serving as a good example of the lengths the company’s news and current affairs personnel would take to do their job. During a segment of the network’s program Hoy Gising, an official of the Malacanang office for Religious Affairs was seen slamming the door in Ms Hidalgo’s face after she unearthed and reported an anomaly involving a missing money donation for a cancer patient.
Last week, though, it was the ABS-CBN that slammed its door in Hidalgo’s face, figuratively speaking, after the reporter’s seven-year complaint with the DOLE against ABS-CBN unearthed anomalies in the network’s treatment of its employees. This followed months of seeming discrimination in her work schedule as word came out that at last, the DOLE would favorably decide on her and five other reporters’ labor case against ABS-CBN, which they filed last 2003.
Hidalgo’s desk editors and immediate superiors had reportedly liked her work, enough to give her assignments and recommend her for regularization. (Photo courtesy of Wheng Hidalgo / bulatlat.com)
Source: Bulatlat.com
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