MANILA, Philippines – The Senate yesterday concurred with the ratification of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention No. 151, which seeks to protect the right of civil servants to organize and determine conditions of employment in public service.
With 22 affirmative votes and no negative votes, the Senate approved on third and final reading Senate Resolution 454, authored and sponsored by Sen. Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate committee on foreign relations.
The Senate, on Monday (August 14), unanimously concurred in the ratification of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the Right to Organise and Procedures for Determining Conditions of Employment in the Public Service (International Labour Organization Convention 151).
“This will bolster the domestic and international status of the Philippines as a leader in promoting and protecting labor and civil rights,” Legarda said.
The Convention promotes sound labor relations between public authorities and public employees’ organizations through the protection of the right to organize, granting of facilities or privileges to its representatives, full development and utilization of machinery for negotiation of terms and conditions of employment, and promotion of civil and political rights of public employees.
Senator Loren Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, sees stronger collaboration on environmental and climate change programs between the Philippines and Indonesia following the visit of Indonesian parliamentarians in the Senate on Wednesday (August 9, 2017).
Sen. Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, expressed confidence on Wednesday that the Senate would pass the report on third reading and accede to ratify ILO Convention 151 next week.
In a statement, Legarda said that, if the Philippine should be ratify the convention, it would be the first Asian country to do so. Such move would also boost the country’s domestic and international status as a leader in promoting and protecting labor and civil rights, she added.
