Labor 2 Flashcards
Labor standards
Minimum terms and conditions of employment to which employees are legally entitled with and with which employers must comply
Labor relations
Interactions between ER and EE/or their representatives and the mechanisms by which the standards and other terms and conditions of employment are negotiated, adjusted or enforced
Social Justice
Art. 2, Sec. 10, 18 and 20.
Art. 13, Sec. 1, 2.
Art. 13, Sec. 3
The State shall afford full protection of labor, local and overseas, organized and unorganized, and promote full employment and equality of employment opportunities for all.
It shall guarantee the rights of all workers to self- organization, collective bargaining and negotiation, and peaceful concerted activities, including the right to strike in accordance with law.
They shall be entitled to security of tenure, humane conditions of work, and a living wage. They shall also participate in policy and decision-making processes affecting their rights and benefits as may be provided by law.
The State shall promote the principle of shared responsibility between workers and employers and the preferential use of voluntary modes of settling disputes, including conciliation, and shall enforce their mutual compliance therewith to foster industrial peace.
The State shall regulate the relations between workers and employers, recognizing the right to labor to its just share in the fruits of production and the right to the enterprises to reasonable returns to investments, and to expansion and growth.
7 Cardinal Rights
- Self-organization
- Collective bargaining & negotiation
- Peaceful Concerted Activities, inc. the Right to Strike
- Security of Tenure
- Humane Conditions of Work
- Living Wage
- Participate in Policy & Decision-Making Processes
Work enlightenment (Art. 250)
Duty of LOs and officers to inform members on:
1) CBL
2) CBA
3) Prevailing labor relations systems
4) Rights and obligations under current laws
State policy on labor relations
Social justice through industrial peace and progress
Employee
Any person in the employ of an employer.
Any individual whose work has ceased as a result of or in connection with any current labor dispute or because of an ULP (if he hasn’t obtained other equivalent and regular employment) (Art. 219)
Who has the right to self-organization?
1) All employees in commercial, industrial agri, GOCCs, religious, charitable, medical. and educational institutions
2) Gov’t Corporate Employees
3) Supervisory employees (255)
4) Aliens (w/ valid permit and from a country that grants similar rights)
5) Security guards
GOCCs and their right to self-organization
1) Those with own charter – governed by CSC; have right to form associations only
2) Those under the Corp. Code with no charter – right to organize
Supervisory employees
An employee who, in the interest of the employer:
1) effectively recommends managerial actions
2) Exercises own discretion; not merely routinary or clerical in nature
Managerial employees
Those that can:
1) Lay down and execute managerial policies
2) Hire, transfer, suspend, lay-off, recall, discharge or assign or discipline
Excluded employees from the right to self-organization
1) Managerial employees
2) Confidential employees (by doctrine of necessary implication)
3) Members of cooperatives
4) Employees of IOs
5) Non-employees (Ambulant, intermittent, itinerant, self-employed, rural and non-definite employer workers)
Managerial staff-supervisory
1) Primary duty = performing work directly related to management policies
2) Exercises discretion and independent judgement
3) Assists in the management of the establishment
4) Doesn’t devote more than 20% than those not mentioned above
Confidential employees
1) Act in a confidential capacity
2) Regarding management policies in the field of labor relations
Non-employees
May form LOs for their mutual aid and protection except collective bargaining
Labor organization
Any union/association of employees which exists in whole or in part for the purpose of collective bargaining or with dealing with ERs concerning terms and conditions of employment (Art. 219).
LLO
Any labor org registered with DOLE (219)
Company Union
Any labor organization whose formation, function or administration had been assisted by an act defined as ULP (219)
Categories of LUs
1) Labor union
2) Workers Association
3) National Union or Federation
4) Trade Union Center
Worker’s Association
Organized for the mutual aid and protection of its members or for any legitimate purpose other than CB
National Union or Federation
Group of LLUs in a private establishment for:
1) CB
2) Terms and condition for employment
3) Participating in the formulation of social and employment policies, standards and programs
4) Registered in the BLR
Trade Union Center
Group of federations
Rationale for LUs
Guijarno v. CIR
Labor relations law
Defines the status, rights and duties, institutional mechanisms that govern the individual and collective interactions of ERs, EEs or their representatives.
Management prerogative
1) Right to hire
2) Right to reasonable returns to investments
3) Expansion and growth
4) Prescribe reasonable rules and impose disciplinary measures
5) Right to dismiss