Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 172)
The primary purpose is to create a Labor Code Committee to study, examine, and harmonize existing labor laws, policies, and regulations and to submit recommendations for the amendment, revision, and codification of the labor and social legislation of the Philippines.
The constitutional mandate for the promotion of social justice and protection of labor guides the creation of the Labor Code Committee.
The Committee is tasked to coordinate, improve, and harmonize laws, judicial precedents, administrative policies, and regulations involving labor-management relations, government agency policies, labor unions, work standards, employment regulations, judicial remedies, and compensation affecting farm and industrial workers, agrarian lessees, and government employees.
The Committee is composed of the Presiding Judge of the Court of Industrial Relations as Chairman, Mr. Vicente A. Rafael as Labor Representative, the Executive Judge of the Court of Agrarian Relations, a representative from the Department of Justice, and a representative from 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 assigned or allotted to it.
The Committee is to submit its report and recommendations to the President before the opening of the regular session of Congress.
Yes, the Committee shall meet at the call of its Chairman.
The significant principles include the promotion of social justice and the protection of labor as mandated by the Constitution.
Their inclusion ensures judicial perspectives on labor and agrarian disputes are considered in harmonizing laws and policies affecting labor and agrarian sectors.