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AN ACT STRENGTHENING THE WORKER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SELF-REORGANZIATION, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 442, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE LABOR CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES
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WORKER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SELF-ORGANIZATION
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41
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103
Legislative History
House Bill/Resolution NO. HB01351 | |
REPUBLIC ACT NO. RA09481 | |
FULL TITLE : AN ACT STRENGTHENING THE WORKERS' CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SELF-ORGANIZATION, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 442, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE LABOR CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES | |
SHORT TITLE : Strengthening the Workers' Constitutional Right to Self-Organization | |
ABSTRACT : The bill seeks to protect the rights of workers to self-organization by preventing undue interference and expediting the process of registration and certification of labor organizations. Allows rank and file and supervisory employees to join the same federation or national union, provides that the co-mingling of rank and file and supervisory employees in the same federation is not a ground for the cancellation of registration and encourages affiliation with federations and national unions. | |
PRINCIPAL AUTHOR/S : DE GUZMAN, DEL R. | |
DATE FILED : 2004-07-13 | |
SIGNIFICANCE: NATIONAL | |
CO-AUTHORS : | |
1. Aguja | 2. Gullas |
3. Espinosa | |
COUNTERPART HOUSE BILL/CONCURRENT RESOLUTION: SB02466 | |
ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE COMMITTEE | |
COMMITTEE REPORT NO. 00619 | |
SUBMITTED ON 2005-03-31 | |
SUBMITTED BY: LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT | |
RECOMMENDATIONS: approval with amendments | |
ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES | |
REFERRAL TO THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT ON 2004-08-02 | |
DATE INCLUDED IN OB: 2005-04-12 | |
DATE CALENDARED : 2005-05-03 | |
SECOND READING INFORMATION | |
PERIOD OF SPONSORSHIP : 2005-06-08 | |
PERIOD OF COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS : 2005-06-08 | |
DATE APPROVED ON SECOND READING : 2005-06-08 | |
REMARKS : The Body approved to consider the Explanatory Note as the sponsorship remarks on the measure. | |
THIRD READING INFORMATION | |
DATE COPY DISTRIBUTED TO MEMBERS: 2005-07-26 | |
DATE APPROVED BY THE HOUSE ON THIRD READING :2005-11-15 | |
HOUSE VOTES: YEAS:159 NAYS:0 ABSTAIN:.0 | |
DATE TRANSMITTED TO THE SENATE: 2005-11-23 | |
ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE SENATE/HOUSE | |
DATE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE: 2005-11-23 | |
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE INFORMATION | |
DATE REQUESTED TO FORM A CONFERENCE COMMITTEE : 2007-02-06 | |
CONFERENCE COMMITTEEE REQUESTED BY : HOUSE | |
DATE AGREED TO FORM A CONFERENCE COMMITTEE : 2007-02-19 | |
REMARKS : | |
CONCOM MEMBERS(HOUSE) : Barinaga, De Guzman, Lagman, Aguja, Mariano, Magtubo | |
CONCOM MEMBERS(SENATE) : Ejercito-Estrada (J.), Lapid, Revilla | |
DATE HOUSE RATIFIED CONCOM REPORT : 2007-02-20 | |
DATE SENATE APPROVED CONCOM REPORT : 2007-02-20 | |
ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE PRESIDENT | |
DATE TRANSMITTED TO THE PRESIDENT : 2007-04-24 | |
DATE ACTED UPON BY THE PRESIDENT : 2007-05-25 | |
PRESIDENTIAL ACTION:(A)PPROVED/(V)ETOED/(L)APSED : L | |
REPUBLIC ACT NO.: RA09481 | |
ORIGIN : SENATE | |
REPUBLIC ACT TITLE: AN ACT STRENGTHENING THE WORKERS' CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SELF-ORGANIZATION, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 442, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE LABOR CODE OF THE PHILLIPINES |
Senate Legislative History
Entitled: AN ACT STRENGTHENING THE WORKERS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SELF-REORGANZIATION, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 442, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE LABOR CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES [ SECOND REGULAR SESSION, 13TH CONGRESS ] [ 2005 ] 11/23/2005 Filed in the Senate requesting for concurrence by Representatives DEL R. DE GUZMAN, MARIO "MAYONG" JOYO M. AGUJA, EDUARDO R. GULLAS and EDGAR T. ESPINOSA, as authors; 11/29/2005 Read on First Reading and Referred to the Committee(s) on LABOR, EMPLOYMENT AND HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT; and CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, REVISION OF CODES AND LAWS; [ THIRD REGULAR SESSION ]
[ 2006 ]9/19/2006 Returned jointly by the Committee(s) on LABOR, EMPLOYMENT AND HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT and CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, REVISION OF CODES AND LAWS per Committee Report No. 103, recommending that it be considered in SBN-2466; 9/19/2006 Submitted said Committee Report to the Senate; 9/19/2006 CONSIDERED IN SBN-2466. [ 2007 ] 2/8/2007 House of Representatives requested the Senate for a conference on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-2466 and HBN-1351, and has designated Representatives Barinaga, De Guzman, Lagman, Aguja, Mariano and Magtubo as its conferees on February 6, 2007; 2/19/2007 Senate accepted the request of the House of Representatives for a conference on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-2466 and HBN-1351, and designated Senators Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, Lapid and Revilla, Jr., as its conferees; 2/20/2007 Conference Committee Report submitted to the Senate, recommending that SBN-2466, in consolidation with HBN-1351, be approved as reconciled; 2/20/2007 Sponsorship speech of Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada on the Conference Committee Report; 2/20/2007 Conference Committee Report Approved by the Senate; 2/20/2007 Conference Committee Report Approved by the House of Representatives; 3/27/2007 Enrolled Copy of the consolidated version of SBN-2466 and HBN-1351 Sent back to the House of Representatives for the Signature of the Speaker and the Secretary General; 4/24/2007 Enrolled copy of the consolidated version of SBN-2466 and HBN-1351, sent to the Office of the President of the Philippines, for the signature of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo; 5/25/2007 Enacted into Law without the signature of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, pursuant to the provisions of Section 27(1), Article VI of the Constitution and Became 5/25/2007 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9481 8/8/2006 Conducted COMMITTEE MEETINGS/HEARINGS; 8/2/2006 Conducted JOINT COMMITTEE MEETINGS/HEARINGS;
Abstract
The bill seeks to protect the rights of workers to self-organization by preventing undue interference and expediting the process of registration and certification of labor organizations. Allows rank and file and supervisory employees to join the same federation or national union, provides that the co-mingling of rank and file and supervisory employees in the same federation is not a ground for the cancellation of registration and encourages affiliation with federations and national unions.
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