Our Culture of Excellence

Monthly "Lunch with the President"

Since 1999, no less than the President & CEO, Mr. Antonio Moraza, shares informal lunches with around 10-15 employees. The activity was created to provide a venue for employees and supervisors to freely express any concern directly to the president himself.

Held once every quarter, the "Lunch with the President" is conducted both in Cebu and Iligan offices. To make the lunches a truly free venue for employees to raise concerns to the president, all managers are excluded from the meetings. Participants are randomly selected by Human Resources from the list of employees.

Monthly Labor Management Council Meeting

Every month, a Labor Management Council (LMC) meeting is held comprised of Mr. Reano Gumalo, Vice President for Operations, together with the Plant HR Manager and other officers of the PILMICO labor union group, Pilmico Employee's Association (PEA).

Formed in 1993, the LMC's main objective is to provide a venue for open and sincere communication to resolve issues between labor and management.

The practice has since produced a marked improvement on labor-management relations. There have been no notices of strike or lock-out in the past seven years. Moreover, the Grievance Committee has not been convened to resolve conflicts in the past four years. The speedy completion of the latest CBA negotiation last May 10, 2000 was concluded in a record of only one and a half days.