LABOR SUMMIT

towards the Formulation of a Comprehensive Labor Agenda

under the
Duterte Administration

Republic of the Philippines

Department of Labor and Employment
 OBJECTIVES
1.Serve as venue to surface the priority
concerns of the labor movement
. Security of Tenure in Private and Public Sector
. Industrial Policy and Economic Roadmap
. Wage, Tax, and Price Reform
. Labor Rights and Standards
. Migration
. Informal Sector
. Women

2.Pave the way for the formulation of a

Comprehensive Labor Agenda under the
 METRO MANILA
October 17, 2016
399 labor leaders from 61
organizations

LABOR DAVAO
November 11, 2016
SUMMI 332 labor leaders from 132
TS organizations

CEBU
November 18, 2016
On Sept. 15, 2016, DOLE and 184 labor leaders from 85
DTI met and discussed the organizations
Win-Win-Strategy proposed by
DTI to address the endo and
contractualization issue
 PROPOSALS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS OF
THE LABOR SECTOR
BASED ON
CONSOLIDATED
WORKSHOP OUTPUTS
 SECURITY OF TENURE
IN THE PRIVATE
SECTOR
Prohibit all forms of contractualization
Oppose regularization of workers with service
providers
Limit the types of employment to regular, casual and
probationary
Provide assistance to displaced workers
Ensure compliance with labor standards and other
labor laws
Strengthen and promote workers right to form and
join labor organizations
 SECURITY OF TENURE
IN THE PUBLIC
SECTOR
Prohibit all forms of contractual employment
Promote full and regular employment in the
public sector
Junk legislative proposal relative to the
merging of government agencies
Set national minimum wage
Institutionalize social dialogue and protect
workers right to self-organize and strike
 INDUSTRIAL POLICY
and ECONOMIC
ROADMAP
Include DOLE in the Economic Cluster of the
Cabinet
Pursue national industrialization
Ease cost of doing business
Decongest urban areas
Repeal the PD 1177 on Budget Reform and RA
9136, the Electric Power Industry Reform Act
D 1177 Revising the Budget Process in order to Institutionalize the Budgetary Innovations of the New Society. Issued 7/30/1977
 WAGE, TAX and PRICE
REFORM
Set national minimum wage
In 1989, RA 6727 regionalized minimum wage setting through the Regional
Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards, which are quasi-legislative tripartite
bodies composed of the DOLE Regional Director as Chairperson, NEDA and DTI
Regional Directors as Vice Chairs, and two (2) members each representing labor
and employers sectors)

Increase and expand coverage of tax exemption

Regulate prices of basic commodities
Amend the Consumer Act and Price Act
 LABOR RIGHTS and
STANDARDS
Strengthen the Labor Laws Compliance
System
Deputize trade unions to conduct
inspections
Criminalize violation of labor and OSH
standards
Provide unemployment insurance
 LABOR RIGHTS and
STANDARDS
Ratify the following ILO Conventions:
No. 151 - Labor Relations (Public Service)
Convention Convention Concerning Protection of the Right to
Organize and Procedures for Determining Conditions of Employment in the
Public Service (entry into force: 02/25/1981)

No. 155 - Occupational Safety and Health

Convention, 1981 (entry into force: 08/11/1983)

No. 172 - Working Conditions (Hotels and

Restaurants) Convention, 1991 (entry into force: 07/07/1994)
 LABOR RIGHTS and
STANDARDS
Continue education of uniformed personnel
on trade union rights and reconstitute the
tripartite Committee created pursuant to AO
No. 35
Include trade unionism in secondary
education
Recall the assumption power of the Secretary
Reform the labor justice system
 MIGRATION

Prioritize creation of local jobs

Allocate more funds to curb illegal
recruitment and human trafficking
Rationalize OWWA programs and benefits
Enact the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers
Conduct financial literacy education for
OFWs
Ratify ILO Convention No. 181 (Private
Employment Agencies)
 INFORMAL SECTOR

Enact Magna Carta for the Informal Sector

Create a Committee on Social Protection for
Workers in the Informal Economy
Junk Public-Private Partnership and Zero
Vendor Policy
Repeal RA No. 7279* and Oil Deregulation Law

RA 7279 Urban and Housing Development Act of 1992, or An Act to Provide for a Comprehensive and
Continuing Urban Development and Housing Program, Establish the Mechanism for its Implementation, and for
other Purposes. (enacted: 03/24/1992)
 WOMEN
Pass the bills on anti-discrimination against
women and on the 120-day minimum
maternity leave
Ratify ILO Convention No. 183 (Maternity
Protection Convention)
Amend the Solo Parent Act and Sexual
Harassment Act
End of Presentation

THANK YOU!

Republic of the Philippines

Department of Labor and Employment