Actress Bea Alonzo’s lawyer issued a statement relating the complaint filed by a certain Efren Torres Delos Reyes at the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
The issue blew up on social media only days ago with Cristy Fermin reporting about it via her show.
She described Efren as a former driver of the actress who has since filed a complaint about his night shift differential pay, overtime pay, holiday pay, 13th month pay as well as alleged illegal dismissal, maltreatment, harassment and lack of separation pay.
Bea’s counsel, lawyer Joey Garcia, said the “The timing of Mr. Delos Reyes’ filing of the labor case is highly suspect.”
It added: “Since he was made a witness to one of the respondents among the criminal cases we filed not to mention him being a lover as admitted, then the intent behind said filing and the timeliness of such filing are too obvious not to be noticed.”
“For the record, Mr. Delos Reyes only served as service driver of the family and only for a short period of three months. He was not even assigned as Bea’s personal driver for her professional engagements. Thus, his claims seem farfetched, unreasonable, if not unrealistic.”
“It’s nothing but a pure harassment case, a desperate attempt to sponge off, an obvious act capitalizing on the criminal case."
Note that Bea has filed a libel complaint in court against Cristy, among others, prior.