PRESS RELEASE

NCMB – DOLE

17 NOVEMBER 2010

SUPPORT MOUNTS FOR SECLAB’S POLICY REFORMS

Secretary Rosalinda D. Baldoz’s program and policy reforms got a boost recently with the pledge of support from the country’s largest association of LMC advocates and practitioners.

Secretary Baldoz was assured of the support of the Philippine League of Labor-Management Cooperation Practitioners (PHILAMCOP) by Ms. Madonna E. Dio, vice-president for management and Atty. Mariano H. Paps, member of the board of trustees, who visited her recently.

“It is heartwarming to note that a big organization like the Philamcop sees wisdom in the reforms that we have initiated and is now our partner in seeing to it that these policy reforms are implemented to benefit the public,” Secretary Baldoz said in a statement.

She stressed the need for continued cooperation and collaboration between the department and its social partners to realize the objectives of these reforms and attain industrial harmony and national progress.

These policy reforms include the de-judicialization of labor dispute resolution through private sector participation, the institutionalization of the 30-day mandatory conciliation-mediation, and labor-management productive partnership to strengthen tripartite cooperation and promote industrial peace.

Philamcop, the umbrella organization of twenty-five regional LMC associations operating in sixteen of the country’s seventeen regions, boasts of total membership of 1,077 companies nationwide.

The association was formed in 1998 when Secretary Baldoz was still executive director of the National Conciliation and Mediation Board. The association has since become an active partner of the NCMB in the promotion of its labor-management cooperation program.

Plant-level LMCs have achieved a steady growth with this partnership. As of date, the NCMB reports that there are some 1,575 existing LMCs nationwide that continue to benefit workers and employers with good management practices, improved communications, strong corporate responsibility, and enhanced productivity.