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Submitted by the Committee on Foreign Relations on Q ? ?Q17

Re: P.S. Res. No. prepared by the Committee

Recommending its approval without amendment.

Sponsors: Sen. Loren Legarda and Sen. Joel Villanueva

MR. PRESIDENT:

entitled:The Committee on Foreign Relations, to which was referred the Agreement,

CONVENTIONCONCERNING PROTECTION OF THE RIGHT TO ORG.VMSE AND

PROCEDURES FOR DETERMINING CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT IN THEPUBLIC SERMCE

has considered the same and has the honor to report it back to the Senate with the recoimnendation tliat Proposed Senate Resolution No. prepared by theCommittee, entitled:

RESOLUTIONCONCURRING IN THE RA'I IEICATION OF THE

CONVENTION CONCERNING PRO I EC HON OF THE RIGHT TO ORGANISE AND PROCEDURES FOR DETERMINING CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE

be approved without amendment.

Respectfully submitted:

LO RE!rC ^G X RD AChair

Committee on Foreign Relations

EMMANUEL “ D. PACQUIAO

ANGARA

DON

MIGUEL F. ZUBIRI

Members

JO EL VILLANUEVA

c y n t h i Ia A. vYl l a i^

GREGORIO B. HONASAN II

JOSEPH VICTOR G. EJERCITO

FRANC1 JDERO

LCrURDES NANCY S. BINAY ANTONIO “SONNY” F. TRILLANES IV

FRANCIS N. PANGILINAN RISA IIONTIVEROS

PAOLO BENIGNO “BAM” AQUINO IV

Ex-OJJicio Members:

-RALPH G. RECTOPresident Pro-Tempore

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ICENIT) C. STJTTO III\Majorit

FRA? IKLir^ D klLO N/ ivlinority Leader

AQUILINO “KOKO” PIM EN TE ^jlllPresidentSenate of the Philippines Pasay City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC ) OF THE PHILIPPINES )

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Prepared by the Committee on Foreign Relations

RESOLUTIONCONCURRING IN THE RATIFICATION OF THE

CONVENTION CONCERNING PROTECTION OF THE RIGHT TO ORGANISE AND PROCEDURES EOR DETERMINING

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE

WHEREAS, Article VII, Section 21 of the Philippine Constitution provides that: "No treaty or international agreement shall be valid and ejfective unless concurred in by at least two-thirds of all the members o f the Senate"-,

WHEREAS, the Convention Concerning Protection o f the Right to Organise and Procedures fo r Determining Conditions o f Employment in the Public Service (Convention) was adopted on 27 June 1978 in Geneva, Switzerland, and entered into force on 25 February 1981;

WHEREAS, 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 tenns and conditions of employment, settlement of disputes arising in connection with the detenuination of terms and conditions of employment, and promotion of civil and political rights o f public employees;

WHEREAS, the Convention applies to all persons employed by public authorities. The extent to which the guarantees in the Convention shall be applied, in so far as the high-level managerial, policy-making and confidential employees are concerned, as well as the armed forces and the police, shall be detennined by national laws and regulations;

WHEREAS, the Convention shall come into force twelve months after the date on which its ratification has been registered with the Director-General of the International Labour Office pursuant to Article 11 thereof;

WTI ERE AS, the President of the Philippines ratified the Agreement on 26 May

2 0 1 7 ;

WHEREAS, the Convention is submitted to the Senate for concurrence, in accordance with the Constitution;

WHEREAS, in the hearing conducted by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on 2 August 2017, aside from the assoeiations of employees in the public sector, the following key government agencies endorsed tlie concurrence to tlie ratification of the Agreement:

1. Department of Foreign Affairs

2. Department of Labor and Employment

3. Department of Justice

4. Civil Service Commission

W HEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED, that the Philippine Senate concur, as it hereby concurs, in tlie Philippine ratification o f the Convention Concerning Protection o f the Right to Organise and Procedures fo r Determining Conditions o f Employment in the Public Service.

Adopted,

.EGARDA Chair

Committee on Foreign Relations

C E R T I F I C A T I O N

o ff ir ia ltP ^ fn M h J r ERTIrY tl^at the attached documents are true and correct copies of the for n lf Convention Concerning Protection of the Right to Organise and Proceduresfor Determining Conditions o f Employment in the Public Service.

'N WITNESS WHEREOF. I, PERFECTO R. YASAY, JR „ Secretary of Foreiqn Affairssubschbed6!© beef o r r ih 0fA hfe Dl par,men, of Forei9n Affairs to be a ffted and my name Pasay c S th is l ! ! l ,yh: fACt,n9 Ass'sta2n0t1f eptefary for Legal Affairs of the Department, in

PERFECjrb R. YASAY, JR.Secretar^of Foreign Affairs

u SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me th is___day ofHonorable PERFECTO R. YASAY. JR., Secretary of F^T^gn AffafrS: 2016 by the

AUSAN, JR.Assistant Secretary

MALACANANGMANILA

INSTRUMENT OF RATIFICATION

TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETINGS:

KNOW YE, that whereas, the Convention Concerning Protection of the Right to Organise and Procedures for Determining Conditions of Employment in the Public Service was adopted on 27 June 1978 in Geneva, Switzerland;

WHEREAS, the Convention promotes sound labor relations between public authorities and public employees’ organizations through the protection of the right to organize, granting of facilities to the representatives of such organizations, full development and utilization of machinery for negotiation of terms and conditions of employment, and promotion of civil and political rights of public employees;

WHEREAS, the Convention applies to all persons employed by public authorities; and

WHEREAS, the extent to which the guarantees in the Convention shall be applied to high-level employees, whose functions are considered policy-making or" I3?,!961!3 ' and confidential employees, as well as to the armed forces and the police shall be determined by national laws and regulations;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE President of the Republic of the Philippines, after having seen and considered the Convention Concerning Protection of the Right to Organise and Procedures for Determining Conditions of Employment in the Public Service, do hereby ratify and confirm the same and each and every article and clause thereof.

I f'lll Tf STIM0NY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

GIVEN under my hand at the City of Manila, this _z£Hday of the year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Seventeen. J ia j in

BY THE PRESIDENT

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