cheap labor
hi SIDSTAR,
PAL (before meant plane always late or plane already left but now means pilots already left) is now privately owed (with a bit of gov't shares).
It is actually making money now but the owner has the habit (& yes he can get away with anything in the Phils) of exploiting cheap labor.
The big boss (majority owner) actually said this to the pilots & some management guys (visibility is the name of the game for these mgt people so that they can get places...brown nosing) in one social gathering.
The gathering which was meant to boost personnel moral actually did the reverse. A slip of the tongue? He meant it actually & that is really his business strategy.
He pays the people at the top a lot of money to kick the asses of those working at the bottom. This is much much cheaper for him.
And yes he pays his lawyers & gov't people good money too...then nobody can win against him.
Too bad...