NCMB disposes 26 cases in Region 6
Twenty-six labor cases in Western Visayas were disposed by the National Conciliation and Mediation Board in August, which are part of the 562 cases disposed last month, according to the Department of Labor and Employment.
The cases were disposed through the free legal aid and voluntary arbitration services and the single-entry approach mechanism, but the NCMB did not identify the specific cases.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said that 512 workers benefited P9.7 million from the disposition of the cases 562 cases.
“This is proof once again of the effectiveness of conciliation and mediation as an alternative mode of settling labor disputes,” Baldoz said in her comment on NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo Ubaldo’s report for the month.
Ubaldo, in his report, said the NCMB’s disposition rate of cases filed under the FLAVAS/SENA has reached 94 percent.
Of the cases, the National Capital Region accounted for 301 or 51 percent; Region 4-A, 85 cases; Region 3, 33 cases; Region 9, 31 cases; Cordillera Administrative Region, 29 cases; and Region 6, 26 cases. The rest of the cases are distributed among the other regions.
The NCMB also reported that as of August 15, it had docketed 18 preventive mediation cases, bringing to 255 the number of preventive mediation cases filed since January.
Twelve of the 15 cases were filed under the second phase of the Speedy and Efficient Delivery of Labor Justice Project (SPEED 2). Of the 12, seven had already been resolved during the month.
Under Project SPEED, the DOLE aims for the disposition of all pending labor cases by April 2011.
Of the 255 cases, 223 raised the issue of unfair labor practices while 31 cases involved deadlock in collective bargaining.*
