Persuading someone to favour someone is bribery that both the lawyer and an arbiter should fight shy of especially when the case lacks subtlety and brims with clarity. All the lawyers I’ve consulted have been knocked for six as the decision of the corrupt and dishonest arbiter derides the intelligence of the sacked workers and the truthfulness of the law. My suspicion has been aroused with such a stupid decision, which can only be gotten done when bought off. It is so preposterous.
Such an arbiter should be kept an eye on and all his decisions before should be looked over – perhaps, by the CHR or ombudsman, as with this kind of arbiter, many human rights have been disregarded and defiled. I’m afraid that the ill-treated and misused were insulted and unfairly treated twice – in the workplace and a government agency labelled as or at least expected to be in ‘Daang Matuwid.’ This decision calls for organising a group that keeps this government agency under observation and asks for its abolition when it is so unscrupulous and depraved. This corrupt practice should be known by all Filipinos, whether they will react or not, act or not, express sympathy or not – to understand how justice is being carried out in the Philippines or in some places like Iloilo City, to inform everyone that the gremlins of bribery and corruption are full of zip and unscathed.
The only way to judge the Daang Matuwid is through one’s direct experience with the government, when one knows he/she is abused in the workplace, yet there is no government agency which can help him/her because of the arbiter who has the tendency to be deceitful.
If such an injustice happens in the local government agency, it means that the Daang Matuwid has no power in the local government or the local leaders betray the Daang Matuwid as they pretend to be upright, trustworthy, moral, good, decent, law-abiding, reliable, scrupulous, or honourable, yet it slurs over the intention of the Daang Matuwid. They treat the Daang Matuwid with scorn, as they pull it down to mockery and cynicism. They bear out how useless the Daang Matuwid is as it has no teeth. Then the President on TV brags about the Daang Matuwid. The Daang Matuwid is mentally overwhelming when the injustice it has not prevented has scored in the victims’ hearts and minds. (The Daang Matuwid should have its own eyes and ears in all government agencies.)
If one has the same case as the ten and the one has won and the ten has lost, does it mean that the one is not worth it (for buying off), but the class is because it involves a lot of money and bribery is worth it? Why is it that the decision is very short? And why does it only focus on one person, who quit then but returned after a few months and stayed for another year? How about the others who worked for the school for eight years? Why theirs aren’t discussed and as if circumvented or considered unreal?
I hope the administration of President Benigno Aquino pokes around this government agency in Iloilo City, for the sake of carrying out the Daang Matuwid. I hope the CHR will be as vigilant as it is, though it is not on TV or publicised. If injustice has taken place it means it has been happening since then. If injustice is not stopped, it signals everyone to revere money more than everything as justice means money, which purports justice.
Frankly, now I’m afraid that this country is getting so prejudiced against the poor, with lop-sided arbiters and government officials.
If the Daang Matuwid promises to alleviate the cancer of this society, then be it, and never should it act like it has no therapeutic claim – or else what is it out of the ordinary compared to the previous administration?
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