The payslip is something that gives a proof that a company has paid an employee. It is signed by the company’s in charge and the employee herself/himself upon getting her/his money due to be paid on payday, of course aside from the payroll which the employee writes her/his signature on.
When a company refuses to let its employees have the payslip, that’s alarming. That is something the DOLE has to know. The employee’s assertiveness has to stir up the company’s deep-seated sense of dishonesties and disregard of her/his right. But this piece of paper is passed over. A shrewd boss especially some Korean bosses cannot issue payslips to their workers. These bosses are motivated not by a desire to practise the fair labour standards, but by fear of being sued someday: they are ready to break the law by dodging tax, by eluding the welfares of workers.
The payslip is like a dagger to them: impales them to be fined – or worse, their companies could be closed down. So one Korean woman I know has cut and run to save herself and her face – and her family who seemed to have adjusted in the Philippines. She was the one who would pay out workers every salary day.
Of late, the BIR has been asking a friend for some payslips: is very willing to sue the company, whose lawyer wanted to accuse its employees of tax evasion. Funny: it could have been the first ever case perhaps – the one which BIR has not filed; a case initiated out of ignorance or exaggeration or intimidation. He should have advised his client to issue payslips, instead. At least this one has sense. And is legal. That one is so embarrassing: mocks his intelligence, I mean his inanity as a lawyer. He thought he was speaking to mindless people, the ones that pee on edge.
A company which doesn’t issue payslips is so despicable. Cheap: I want to shake my head, frowning. I want to wrinkle my brow inquisitively. Imagine it creates some kind of incongruity to those who have worked in a decent company. For one thing, they don’t issue payslips, yet they have two payrolls – for the BIR, SSS, Pag-ibig, and Philhealth and for the company. And then a mayor is OK with it. Gossiped: I hope not. Anyway no mayor would dare OK it when she/he is an honest one. BS: for tourism. What? Rubbishy mind.
I want to suggest to the DOLE and BIR that payslips have to be signed by their representative – for daang matuwid’s sake. And to avoid dishonesties as well. Copies of payslips, too, have to be given in to the DOLE and BIR every month. But who will when these dishonesties are protected and encouraged subtly and for other reasons not so clear to non-businesspeople. You know I can’t still understand why the DOLE doesn’t want to intervene in the paying out of money the company has failed to pay then. What if these workers were threatened to be sacked if they got their back pays? It’s up to them, makes me upset – an answer of shadiness and unconcern.
The payslip must be filed away, in any case. And the DOLE is just a phone away in case the company cannot make out what it is. I’m sure a dole official can pop up in your workplace and jog their memory. You need to have a forceful request of your payslips. If you are a bit weak and infirm then ask help from the DOLE and have just your identity withheld. There is one officer in there whose job is to sit at table and monitor the logbook aside from a security guard. I’m sure your problem will be solved almost immediately.
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