VOLUNTARY ARBITRATION PROGRAM

 

LINKS

NCMB - Voluntary Arbitration Division Tel. #  332-4178

 

 

POLICY AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK

  

 

 1987 Constitution

 Sec. 3, Article XIII provides:

 "The State shall  promote the principle of shared responsibility between workers and employers and the preferential use of voluntary modes in settling disputes,  including conciliation, and shall enforce their mutual compliance therewith to foster industrial peace."

 Labor Code, as amended by Republic Act 6715

 Article 211 of the Code provides,  among others:

 (a) "...It is the policy of the State...to promote and emphasize the primacy of free collective bargaining and negotiations,  including voluntary arbitration,  mediation and conciliation, as modes of settling labor or industrial disputes."

 (b) "To provide an adequate administrative machinery for the expeditious settlement of labor or industrial disputes."