NLRC to resolve 1,000 labor cases in just one week.
Byline: E. T. SUAREZ A task force of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) will dispose of more than 1,000 labor disputes in only a week of non-stop sessions in Tagaytay City to help promote industrial peace, dispense social justice, and improve the administraton of labor justice....

National labor leaders weigh revising who is a 'supervisor'.
Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard Imagine an electrical workers' union with no journeyman linemen as members - banned from joining because they supervise apprentice workers. It could happen, national labor leader Stewart Acuff said Tuesday in Eugene, if the National Labor Relations Board decides to...

More labor pains.
The National Labor Relations Board has notified Ballet West that the charge filed against the company by the American Guild of Musical Artists has been withdrawn ... The Washington Ballet has settled a discrimination suit brought by AGMA, the union representing fired dancers Brian Corman (subsequently rehired) and Nikkia...

More labor strife in D.C.
The newly unionized dancers of The Washington Ballet have already hit a rocky road with company management. In March, Nikkia Parish and Brian Corman, two company dancers who testified before the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of unionization for the company, were fired. The dancers' union, the American...

Acting NLRC chair quits.
Byline: E. T. SUAREZ Acting Chairman Benedicto Ernesto R. Bitonio Jr. of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) has resigned from his post for ethical, personal, and political reasons. In a letter to President Arroyo, Bitonio said his resignation will take effect on Sept. 30....

Fewer strikes seen as NLRC law takes effect.
Fewer strikes and lockouts were seen yesterday as the consolidated version of Senate Bill No. 2035 and House Bill No. 5015 rationalizing the composition and functions of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC), an attached agency of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE), lapsed into law without the...

Appointment of more NLRC commissioners, permanent head urged.
The appointment of a permanent chairman and additional commissioners of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) was urged yesterday by a group of non-government organizations (NGOs), labor and cause-oriented sectors, saying it will help speed up the resolution of labor disputes, minimize strikes and lockouts, improve the relations between...

NLRC work expected to hasten when Sto. Tomas takes over.
Byline: E.T. SUAREZ Commissioners, labor arbiters, and other officials and personnel of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) will be kept on their toes settling or resolving labor disputes when Labor Secretary Patricia A. Sto. Tomas formally takes over the administrative supervision of the commission from its...

Palace names new NLRC head.
Byline: E.T. SUAREZ President Arroyo has appointed a career official as new commissioner of the National Labor Relations (NLRC) in a bid to expedite the resolution of labor disputes, promote industrial peace and dispense social justice. Lawyer Perlita B. Bathan Velasco, the new NLRC commissioner,...

Seneres starts month-long terminal leave.
Byline: E.T. SUAREZ National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) Chairman Roy V. Seneres goes on terminal leave today until June 30 when his irrevocable letter of resignation to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo takes effect. Seneres decision to take a terminal leave is not expected to trigger...