Book V — Labor Relations
Article 234Requirements of registration.
ELI5— what this means for you
To register as a legitimate labor union, an organization must: pay ₱50 registration fee, submit officer lists and meeting minutes, have at least 20% of the bargaining unit as members, and submit their constitution and by-laws.
Key point
Official text — PD 442
Requirements of registration.
Any applicant labor organization, association or group of unions or workers shall acquire legal personality and shall be entitled to the rights and privileges granted by law to legitimate labor organizations upon issuance of the certificate of registration based on the following requirements.
Fifty pesos (P50.00) registration fee;
The names of its officers, their addresses, the principal address of the labor organization, the minutes of the organizational meetings and the list of the workers who participated in such meetings;
The names of all its members comprising at least twenty percent (20%) of all the employees in the bargaining unit where it seeks to operate; (As amended by Executive Order No. 111, December 24, 1986)
If the applicant union has been in existence for one or more years, copies of its annual financial reports; and
Four (4) copies of the constitution and by-laws of the applicant union, minutes of its adoption or ratification, and the list of the members who participated in it. (As amended by Batas Pambansa Bilang 130, August 21, 1981)
Source: lawphil.net (PD 442 as amended)
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