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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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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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