Region 7’s NLRC tops in resolved labor cases
The National Labor Relations Commission in
Executive labor arbiter Judge Julie Rendoque said the
Rendoque said this means that
“Our quota is 27 cases per month wherein 300 cases will only be solved in a year so this counts that we have gone higher from what we wanted to achieve,” he said.
The figures indicated a higher settlement of labor cases and a climate of industrial peace in the region, Rendoque said.
Rendoque said that more companies are now giving time to discuss their problems that almost always ended up in amicable settlements under the Walk-In-Settlement program of the NLRC that was started in 1996.
The NLRC said that it has been determined to resolve labor disputes in the fairest, quickest, cheapest and most effective way possible to be able to erase its backlog of unresolved cases by this year.
NLRC chairman Benedicto Ernesto Bitonio earlier announced that the proposed 3-Year Master Plan, recently approved by the NLRC en banc, will serve as a tool to fulfill its goal of being backlog-free of labor cases.
The chairman said the backlog refers to cases that the NLRC fails to resolve within six months from the date of filing, receiving, or docketing.
There are now a total of 4,922 backlog cases in the Commission level, and there are 8,808 backlog cases in the regional arbitration branches as of
The target of the 3-Year Master Plan was to reach zero pending cases by 2007 and no more earlier cases by June 30 this year. To achieve this, each of the fifteen NLRC commissioners must dispose of 57.2 cases monthly, and each of the 105 labor arbiters must dispose of 25.3 cases a month after resolving older cases.
Bitonio believed that the three NLRC plans are attainable. – Jasmin R. Uy/RAE
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