Open AccessLabor Laws Compliance System: Its Implementation In Cebu City
Author(s) -
Vivencio E. Lagahid,
Hazel C. Navarro,
Alexander Franco A. Delantar
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings journal of interdisciplinary research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2423-298X
pISSN - 2423-2998
DOI - 10.21016/irrc.2015.ju20wf76o
Subject(s) - legislation , business , government (linguistics) , prosperity , welfare , economic growth , productivity , local government , law , economics , political science , philosophy , linguistics
Labor Laws are made to govern and protect the rights of the workers, thus they are amended whenever warranted to ensure the welfare of the working class, while at the same time upholding the economic productivity and prosperity of the industrial sector. This imperative has attained ordinal importance in the light of the economic integration of the Philippines with ASEAN. Under Article 128 of the Labor Code of the Philippines, the Secretary of Labor and Employment is mandated to conduct routine inspections to assess the compliance of the business establishments with labor standards. In an effort to ease and simplify the inspection process, the DOLE, on July 19, 2013, promulgated the Department Order 131-13 series of 2013, known as “Rules on Labor Laws Compliance System” which contains the new rules and regulations in the implementation of local labor legislation. This paper examined the meaning, coverage, benefits, implications, and implementation of the Labor Laws Compliance System (LLCS) on business establishments in Cebu (inclusive of the province’s component cities and municipalities). Cebu is an island province in the Central Region of the Philippines, with Cebu City as its capital. The growth of Cebu City has influenced incremental economic ripples to its neighboring cities and municipalities leading to a highly urbanized industrial and commercial sprawl called Metro Cebu. The study employed as research methods documentary inspection and analyses, supplemented by in-depth interviews. The informants included government officials and civil servants, executives and managers, labor leaders and private sector employees.