NLRC

LABOR ARBITER
JURISDICTION

Exclusive and Original

NLRC
Original Jurisdiction

BUREAU OF LABOR RELATIONS

MED-ARBITER then to REGIONAL
DIRECTOR
Exclusive and Original

VOLUNTARY ARBITRATION

NLRC

GRIEVANCE MACHINERY

POEA
1.

1.
1.

Unfair Labor Practices

2.

Illegal Dismissal ONLY

3.

Reinstatement WITH claims of wages,

rates of pay, hours of work and other
terms and conditions of employment;

4.

Claims for actual, moral, exemplary and

other forms of damages arising from
employer-employee relations;

5.

Cases arising from PROHIBITED

ACTIVITIES during strikes and lockouts
Legality of Strikes and Lock-outs a
lockouts;

6.
7.

claims arising from employer-employee

relations, including those of persons in
domestic or household service,
involving an amount exceeding
(P5,000.00), whether or not
accompanied with a claim for
reinstatement;

8.

Wage distortion disputes in

unorganized establishments

9.

Money claims arising out of employeremployee relationship or by virtue of

any law or contract, involving Filipino
workers for overseas deployment,
including claims for actual, moral,
exemplary and other forms of damages

10. Enforcement of compromise

agreements entered with BLR
assistance when such was obtained
through fraud, misrepresentation or
coercion.

1.

INJUNCTION in ordinary labor

disputes

2.

INJUNCTION of strikes and lockouts

3.

CERTIFYS LABOR DISPUTES

causing or likely to cause
strike/lock-outs in an industry
indispensable to the nation interest
for COMPULSORY ARBITRATION
by Sec. of Labor

Exclusive Appellate
4.

ALL Cases DECIDED by LABOR

ARBITER including contempt

5.

Cases DECIDED by REGIONAL

DIRECTOR of BLR --- in cases
involving RECOVERY of WAGES,
simple money claims and other
benefits NOT exceeding 5,000 and
NO claim of Reinstatement.

1.

Inter and Intra- Union Disputes

2.

RECOVERY of WAGES, simple money

claims and other benefits NOT
exceeding 5,000 and NO claim of
Reinstatement. (Small Money claims)

3.

4.

ALL disputes, grievances or problems

arising from or affecting labor
management relations in ALL
workplaces EXCEPT if it arises in CBA
Complaints INVOLVING
FEDERATIONS, National Unions,
Industry unions, its officers or member

Illegal Dismissal with

disputes in implementing
CBA

2.

implementation or
interpretation of the
collective bargaining
agreement and/or

3.

interpretation and
enforcement of company
personnel policies

4.

WAGE DISTORTION

2.
3.

Cancellation or Suspension
of License/Authority to
Recruit
Disciplinary Actions against
OFWs
Violation of Overseas
Employment Contracts

11. Other cases as may be provided by

law.
LABOR ARBITER
DECISION

APPEAL

Self-Executing Order if REINStatement was

granted

MED-ARBITER then to REGIONAL

DIRECTOR

NLRC
Final and Executory NOT
APPEALABLE

COMPROMISE AGREEMENTS may be

ENTERED and Final and Binding between
parties

Gen. Rule:

Exception:
(1)

SMALL MONEY CLAIMS

(2)

VIOLATION of the Compromise

agreement

(3)

Compromise Agreement entered

through Fraud, Misrepresentation or
Coercion (subject to LAs Approval)

GRIEVANCE MACHINERY

POEA

Final and Executory

NOT APPEALABLE

BINDING and appealable

For Cancellation/Suspension
of License or Authority

VIOLATION of Overseas
Employment Contract

Disciplinary Action against

OFWs