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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE & FLOWCHART: LABOR DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
Supreme
OFFICE OF THE Court
PRESIDENT Ordinary
(Assumption of Jurisdiction*) Appeal
III. Strike/Lockout under
Appeal available w/in the prescriptive period Rule 45
Intervention
DOLE
Secretary
(Assumption of Jurisdiction*)

*Certification to NLRC
Court of
Philippine Overseas
Employment decisions National Labor National Appeals
Relations Conciliation and
Administration rendered in Mediation Board
Commission
(POEA) (NLRC) (NCMB)
BLRs
original
jurisdiction

II. Compulsory Bureau Of Labor

Ordinary
Special
Relations Certiorari under Rule 65 Civil
Arbitration (BLR) Appeal (decisions rendered in BLRs Action
w/in 10 appellate jurisdiction) of
Appeal on days
Appeal on intra- Certiorari
certification union disputes under
election Rule 65
cases Appeal on
Ordinary
if inter/intra-union dispute **3 cases
Appeal
Appeal under Rule 43
under
Voluntary (questions of law/abuse of
Regional Labor authority or jurisdiction)
Rule 45
Director Arbitrator
Arbiter (Last Stage of Voluntary
(DOLE R.O.s) Arbitration)
Med-Arbiter
when Collective Bargaining Negotiations
if labor-management dispute reach a deadlock and Settlement between
LEGEND: the parties has become remote
- directly under I. VOLUNTARY
for Conciliation-mediation
- appeal/elevation of case Grievance
ARBITRATION
- attached Agency Machinery (Plant-Level Grievance Resolution)
* labor disputes causing or likely to
cause a strike or lockout in an industry
indispensable to the national interest
** 1)application for union registration 2)petition for cancellation of union registration and 3)petition for examination of unions books of account