This refers to the National Labor Relations Commission or any of its divisions.

This refers to the Bureau of Labor Relations and/or the Labor Relations Divisions in the regional offices established under Presidential Decree No. 1, in the Department of Labor.

It is the National Conciliation and Mediation Board established under E.O. No. 126.

A legitimate labor organization whether or not employed by the employer.

Any labor organization whose formation, function or administration has been assisted by any act defined as unfair labor practice.

Any labor organization duly registered with the Department of Labor and Employment, and includes any branch or local thereof.

Any union or association of employees which exists in whole or in part for the purpose of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning terms and conditions of employment.

Any person in the employ of an employer.

Any person acting in the interest of an employer, directly or indirectly.

They are the ones who is vested with the powers or prerogative to lay down and execute management policies and/or to hire, transfer, suspend, lay-off, recall, discharge, assign or discipline employees.

Any person accredited by the Board as such or any person named or designated in the Collective Bargaining Agreement by the parties to act as their Voluntary Arbitrator.

Employees who effectively recommend such managerial actions if the exercise of such authority is not merely routinary or clerical in nature but requires the use of independent judgment.

It means any temporary stoppage of work by the concerted action of employees as a result of an industrial or labor dispute.

Any temporary refusal of an employer to furnish work as a result of an industrial or labor dispute.

Any person who obstructs, impedes, or interferes with by force, violence, coercion, threats, or intimidation any peaceful picketing affecting wages, hours or conditions of work in the exercise of the right of self-organization or collective bargaining.

The establishment, warehouses, depots, plants or offices, including the sites or premises used as runaway shops, of the employer struck against, as well as the immediate vicinity actually used by picketing strikers in moving to and fro before all points of entrance to and exit from said establishment.

It is the act of making exaggerated or unreasonable proposals.

This is defined as “going through the motions of negotiating” without any legal intent to reach an agreement.

Any voluntarily recognized or certified labor union may demand negotiations with its employer for terms and conditions of work covering employees in the bargaining unit concerned.

It refers to a group of employees sharing mutual interests within a given employer unit, comprised of all or less than all of the entire body of employees in the employer unit or any specific occupational or geographical grouping within such employer unit.

It refers to all employees of a single employer unless the employees of a particular department or division have voted otherwise.

It is defined as “the situation between the labor and the management of the company where there is failure in the collective bargaining negotiations resulting in a stalemate.”

Employees who have been engaged to perform activities which are usually necessary or desirable in the usual business or trade of the employer.

Employees who are neither regular nor project employees.