1. The document defines key terms related to labor and employment such as worker, recruitment, private employment agency, and overseas employment.
2. It also covers terms related to labor relations such as labor organization, bargaining representative, and unfair labor practices.
3. Finally, it defines roles within an organization such as managerial employees, supervisory employees, and rank and file employees as well as terms like strike and lockout.
1. The document defines key terms related to labor and employment such as worker, recruitment, private employment agency, and overseas employment.
2. It also covers terms related to labor relations such as labor organization, bargaining representative, and unfair labor practices.
3. Finally, it defines roles within an organization such as managerial employees, supervisory employees, and rank and file employees as well as terms like strike and lockout.
1. The document defines key terms related to labor and employment such as worker, recruitment, private employment agency, and overseas employment.
2. It also covers terms related to labor relations such as labor organization, bargaining representative, and unfair labor practices.
3. Finally, it defines roles within an organization such as managerial employees, supervisory employees, and rank and file employees as well as terms like strike and lockout.
1. The document defines key terms related to labor and employment such as worker, recruitment, private employment agency, and overseas employment.
2. It also covers terms related to labor relations such as labor organization, bargaining representative, and unfair labor practices.
3. Finally, it defines roles within an organization such as managerial employees, supervisory employees, and rank and file employees as well as terms like strike and lockout.
❖ Declaration of Basic Policy - The State shall placement activities as a private recruitment
afford protection to labor, promote full entity
employment, ensure equal work ❖ Seaman means any person employed in a opportunities regardless of sex, race or vessel engaged in maritime navigation. creed, and regulate the relations between workers and employers. The State shall ❖ Overseas employment means employment assure the rights of workers to self- of a worker outside the Philippines. organization, collective bargaining, security of tenure, and just and humane conditions of ❖ Emigrant means any person, worker or work. otherwise, who emigrates to a foreign country by virtue of an immigrant visa or ❖ Worker means any member of the labor resident permit or its equivalent in the force, whether employed or unemployed. country of destination. ❖ Recruitment and placement refer to any act ❖ Apprenticeship means practical training on of canvassing, enlisting, contracting, the job supplemented by related theoretical transporting, utilizing, hiring or procuring instruction for not more than 6 months. workers, and includes referrals, contract services, promising or advertising for ❖ Learners are persons hired as trainees in employment, locally or abroad, whether for semi-skilled and other industrial occupations profit or not: Provided, that any person or which are non-apprenticeable and which entity which, in any manner, offers or may be learned through practical training on promises for a fee, employment to two or the job in a relatively short period of time more persons shall be deemed engaged in which shall not exceed three (3) months. recruitment and placement. ❖ Industrial Homeworkers are workers who ❖ Private fee-charging employment agency received any goods, articles or materials to means any person or entity engaged in be processed or fabricated in or about a recruitment and placement of workers for a home and thereafter to be returned or to be fee which is charged, directly or indirectly, disposed of or distributed to their employer. from the workers or employers or both. ❖ Night worker means any employed person ❖ License means a document issued by the whose work requires performance of a Department of Labor authorizing a person or substantial number of hours of night work entity to operate a private employment which exceeds a specified limit. agency. Labor Relations ❖ Private recruitment entity means any ❖ Labor organization means any union or person or association engaged in the association of employees which exists in recruitment and placement of workers, whole or in part for the purpose of collective locally or overseas, without charging, bargaining or of dealing with employers directly or indirectly, any fee from the concerning terms and conditions of workers or employers. employment. ❖ Authority means a document issued by the ❖ Legitimate labor organization means any Department of Labor authorizing a person or labor organization duly registered with the association to engage in recruitment and Department of Labor and Employment, and includes any branch or local thereof. ❖ Company union means any labor ❖ Internal union dispute includes all disputes organization whose formation, function or or grievances arising from any violation of or administration has been assisted by any act disagreement over any provision of the defined as unfair labor practice by this Code. constitution and by-laws of a union, including any violation of the rights and ❖ Bargaining representative means a conditions of union membership provided legitimate labor organization or any officer for in this Code. or agent of such organization whether or not employed by the employer. ❖ Strike-breaker means any person who obstructs, impedes, or interferes with by ❖ Labor dispute includes any controversy or force, violence, coercion, threats, or matter concerning terms and conditions of intimidation any peaceful picketing affecting employment or the association or wages, hours or conditions of work or in the representation of persons in negotiating, exercise of the right of self-organization or fixing, maintaining, changing or arranging collective bargaining. the terms and conditions of employment, regardless of whether the disputants stand ❖ Unfair Labor Practices exist when employers in the proximate relation of employer and interfere with, restrain or coerce employees employee. in the exercise of their right to self; etc.
❖ Managerial employee is one who is vested
with the powers or prerogatives to lay down and execute management policies and/or to hire, transfer, suspend, lay-off, recall, discharge, assign or discipline employees.
❖ Supervisory employees are those who, in
the interest of the employer, effectively recommend such managerial actions if the exercise of such authority is not merely routinary or clerical in nature but requires the use of independent judgment.
❖ Rank and File Employees are those who are
not a managerial or supervisory employee.
❖ Voluntary Arbitrator means any person
accredited by the Board as such, or any person named or designated in the Collective Bargaining Agreement by the parties to act as their Voluntary Arbitrator.
❖ Strike means any temporary stoppage of
work by the concerted action of employees as a result of an industrial or labor dispute.
❖ Lockout means any temporary refusal of an
employer to furnish work as a result of an industrial or labor dispute.