Concerted Activities
According to National Labor Relations Board, employees who are not represented by a union
also have rights under the NLRA. Specifically, the National Labor Relations Board protects the
rights of employees to engage in concerted activity, which is when two or more employees
take action for their mutual aid or protection regarding terms and conditions of employment. A
single employee may also engage in protected concerted activity if he or she is acting on the
authority of other employees, bringing group complaints to the employers attention, trying to
induce group action, or seeking to prepare for group action.
Two or more employees addressing their employer about improving their pay.
Two or more employees discussing work-related issues beyond pay, such as safety
concerns, with each other.
a. Original and exclusive jurisdiction to hear and decide the following cases involving all
workers, whether agricultural or non-agricultural:
1. Unfair labor practice cases;
2. Termination disputes;
3. If accompanied with a claim for reinstatement, those cases that workers may file involving
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 any violation of Article 264 of the Labor Code, as amended, including
questions involving the legality of strikes and lockouts;
6. Except claims for employees compensation not included in the next succeesing paragraph,
social security, medicare, and maternity benefits, all other
Thousand Pesos (P5,000.00), whether or not accompanied with a claim for reinstatement;
7. Wage distortion disputes in unorganized establishments not voluntarily settled by the parties
pursuant to Republic Act No. 6727;
amended;
including claims for actual, moral, exemplary and other forms of damages as provided by
Section 10, Republic Act No. 8042, as amended by Republic
I dont think that they are still relevant because even though they represent particular sectors,
they often fail to achieve their goals. If these party-lists are just efficient, they could contribute to
the needs of their respective sectors.
Ladlad According to the case
Rather than relying on religious belief, the legitimacy of the Assailed Resolutions
should depend, instead, on whether the COMELEC is able to advance some justification
for its rulings beyond mere conformity to religious doctrine. Otherwise stated,
government must act for secular purposes and in ways that have primarily secular
effects.
MAgdalo- Magdalo Para sa Pagbabago should be refused registration in accordance with Art.
IX-C, Section 2(5) of the Constitution. It is common knowledge that the partys organizer and
Chairman, Senator Antonio F. Trillanes IV, and some members participated in the take-over of
the Oakwood Premier Apartments in Ayala Center, Makati City on July 27, 2003, wherein
several innocent civilian personnel were held hostage. This and the fact that they were in full
battle gear at the time of the mutiny clearly show their purpose in employing violence and
using unlawful means to achieve their goals in the process defying the laws of organized
societies.