Dear PAO,Our company has been giving transportation allowances, food subsidies, annual medical and educational benefits to all employees from the very start of its operations in 2010. Last year, after it earned high profits and gained recognition from the market, our company eliminated the above-mentioned benefits and informed us that those benefits were only given by them voluntarily. CrystalDear Crystal,Under the principle of non-diminution of benefits, a company practice favorable to the employees that had ripened into benefits and supplements cannot be reduced, diminished, discontinued or eliminated by the employer. The principle of non-diminution of benefits is actually founded on the Constitutional mandate to protect the rights of workers, to promote their welfare, and to afford them full protection. Thus, those benefits given to you cannot be unilaterally reduced, diminished, discontinued or eliminated by your company.

Source: Manila Times June 11, 2020 16:07 UTC