Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 172)
President Diosdado Macapagal created the Labor Code Committee by virtue of the powers vested in him by law.
The main functions are to study, examine, harmonize existing labor laws, policies, and regulations, and to submit recommendations for amendments, revisions, and codification of labor and social legislation.
The Presiding Judge of the Court of Industrial Relations is the chairman of the Labor Code Committee.
The Committee is composed of the Presiding Judge of the Court of Industrial Relations (Chairman), Mr. Vicente A. Rafael as Labor Representative, the Executive Judge of the Court of Agrarian Relations, a Representative of the Department of Justice, and a Representative of the Department of Labor.
The Committee is authorized to call upon any government department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality for information and assistance, and to secure personnel, funds, and equipment as may be assigned or allotted to it.
It must submit its report and recommendations to the President before the opening of the regular session of Congress.
The Committee must address labor-management relations, government agencies' policies and procedures, labor unions, work standards, employment regulations, judicial remedies, and compensation affecting farm and industrial workers, agrarian lessees, and government employees.
The constitutional mandate for the promotion of social justice and the protection of labor guides the creation of the Committee.
The Committee meets at the call of the Chairman.