The International Federation of Journalists expressed its extreme disappointment over the response of ABS-CBN management to allegations of irregular employment practices and conditions in the company.

Jacqueline Park, IFJ Asia-Pacific Director, in its second letter dated August 19, railed against ABS-CBN for not responding directly to the concerns it raised in a letter sent to management last June 16, 2010. Instead it referred to a press release which IFJ decry as unsatisfactory and inappropriate.

"It strikes the IFJ and the NUJP that ABS-CBN has a high level of disrespect for the professionalism and experience of its employees by refusing to respond directly to the concerns raised," Park said.

The IFJ requested management for a consultation with its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and discuss above concerns and "to seek a mutually positive resolution to address employment practices that have deprived ABS-CBN personnel of their right to free association, fair compensation and decent working conditions."

The Kapamilya network dismissed one to two IJM personnel every day for two months or a more than 90 workers since June 16, 2010, the deadline it set for IJM to accept regularization offer on conditions that they will waive their rights and that job tenure is exluded.

Here is the second letter of IFJ to ABS - CBN: