Manila, April 25 -- It is high time to set mandatory workplace emergency protocol standards for rank-and-file workers in light of scores of employers who refused to evacuate their employees and maintained a business as usual attitude in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake last Monday, leaders of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said.
Raymond Mendoza, TUCP president, said there are no existing government mandatory standards that address this very important aspect of workplace safety and health particularly during emergency situations such as earthquake, fire and other disasters happening in the workplace.
"Because there are no specific mandatory guidelines regarding such life and death scenario, there is a very urge...