SBN-1045 - Senate

SEC. 118. Protection of the Right to Self-Organization. - Government
employees shall not be discriminated against by reason of their membership in
employee organizations or participation in the normal and legitimate activities of such
organizations. Employment in the civil service system shall not be subject to the
condition that the individual shall not form or join any employee’s organizations.
Management shall not interfere in the establishment and administration of
government employee organizations.
Chapter 2. Employee Organization
SEC. 119. Registration of Rank-and-File Employee Organization - Rank-
and-file employee Organizations shall register with the Commission in accordance with
the implementing guidelines to be promulgated by the Commission.
SEC. 120. Sole and Exclusive Employee Organizafion. - The duly
registered employee organization in an agency that has the support of the majority of
the total rank-and-file employees, shall be accredited by the Commission as the sole
and exclusive employee representative. In cases when there are two (2) or more
registered employee organizations in an agency, the Commission, upon petition, shall
conduct a certification election and shall certify the employee organization who
garnered the majority vote as the sole and exclusive representative of the rank-and-file
employees in the said agency.
For this purpose, an agency shall refer to an office which has its own budgetary
allocations as provided for in the General Appropriations Act, specifically its Table of
Contents.
SEC. 121. Accredifatioh of Employee Federation in An Agency. -
Registered employee organizations within a given agency may federate and shall be
accredited as the sole and exclusive bargaining representative of the employees;
Provided, its aggregate total membership constitute the majority of the total rank-and-
file employees in the agency.
SEC. 122. Collective Negotiations. - Except those that are fixed by law,
terms and conditions of employment in the government service may be the subject of
collective negotiations between duly accredited employee organizations and the
appropriate government authorities.
Collective negotiations agreement shall be registered with the Commission.
Chapter 3. Settlement of Disputes
SEC 123. Definifion of ferms. - For purposes of this Code, the following
terms shall be defined as follows:
A. Arbitration - refers to the process whereby a third party (individual
arbitrator), a board of arbitrators, or an arbitration court not acting as a
court, is empowered to make a decision which disposes of the dispute.
1. Voluntary - a method of settling disputels where both parties agree to
submit the dispute before an arbitrator or panel of arbitrators chosen
by both parties. The voluntary arbitrators shall render a decision after