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Vision Mission

We envision to develop globally competent leaders who possess a strong sense of self Immaculada Concepcion College aims to provide high quality education designed to
direction and passion for excellence. nurture highly skilled, well rounded, and confident life-long learners to be productive
contributors of the global society.
College Goals

• To continually change, improve, and ensure the effectiveness of the College’s programs in preparing students for successful careers.
• To engage and maintain a competent, qualified faculty that possesses current technical and professional knowledge and experience, engages in ongoing professional
development, and has the ability to convey this knowledge to students.
• To improve students’ written and verbal competencies as well as analytical and technical skills prior to graduation.
• To provide facilities that support educational programs and enable students to develop profession specific skills.
• To engage and maintain a staff that is caring and provides support for students and meets their educational goals and objectives.
• To attract qualified students of diverse backgrounds.
• To provide a collegiate academic atmosphere that encourages open exchange of ideas.
• To offer comprehensive distance learning programs to meet the educational and training needs of citizens and industry more fully.
• To engage graduate faculty in research that serves to improve teaching and learning.
• To engage in programs and activities that provide community service aligned with the College’s mission.
Program Outcomes (CMO #19 S 2017)

6.2.1 Perform the basic functions of management such as planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling
6.2.3 Use the proper decision-making tools to critically, analytically and creatively solve problems and drive results.
6.2.4 Express oneself clearly and communicate effectively with stakeholders both in oral and written forms.
6.3.5 Exhibit acceptable human relations skills in a diverse environment
6.3.6 Engage in lifelong learning to keep abreast of the development in the international employment market.
6.2.9 Exercise high personal moral and ethical standards

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Class Information Instructor’s Information
Section Instructor’s Name
Schedule Office Designation
Time Office Hours
Venue Office Telephone
Term E-mail Address

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 Course Information
Course Name Labor Relations and Negotiations Course Code: PROF 6
Pre-requisite Subject Course Credit 3 units, 3 hrs,/wk. (18 weeks, 54 hrs. total)
Course Requirements
• Students are expected to read and study text, as assigned before each class
• Students are expected to read, summarize, and type in an appropriate report style depending on the given topic. Reporting can be individual or group
• Assignments must be submitted in appropriate presentation. Students will be required to present a power point presentation, working with in a team.
• Attendance and class participation is required and is part of the graded performance
• Completion of activities, modules, prelim, midterm, and final examinations.

Grading System
• Participation
- Recitation, Seatwork – 35%
• Written Output
- Quizzes, Assignment & Reporting – 35%
• Exam – 30%

TOTAL – 100%

Course Description BTIs covered

The course uses cases, lectures, and simulations to develop negotiation skills in a variety of management situations, including union-management relations. Issues 1.1.1
include preemployment discussions, collective bargaining, arbitration, mediation, agency, renegotiating contracts, and multiparty discussions. Instructors and
Schedule.
Course Learning Outcomes BTIs covered

At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

A. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the Labor relations and negotiations, all its aspects and applicability to employment 1.1.1

B. Show critical and creative thinking in analyzing the situations that they may face when handling labor relations and negotiations.
1.1.1
C. Manifest appreciation of all legal bases behind labor relations and negotiations
1.1.1

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 Time Intended Learning Outcomes
Allotment (ILOs)
Week 1 At the end of the week, the
student should be able to:
● Discuss the right to
organization of employees
● Define collective bargaining
● Describe security of nature
● Explain humane working
conditions
● Examine participative
management
● Discuss the right to strike
● Illustrate just share and
reasonable reform program
● Explain comprehensive
agrarian reform program
● Describe subsistence
fisherman
Week 2 At the end of the week, the
student should be able to:
• Define the Guild System
• Discuss the domestic
system
• Contrast guild system from
domestic system
• Recall the industrial
revolution
• Explain the factory system
and its societal effects
• Enumerate the major
characteristics of an
employer-employee
relationship
• Identify reasons for
complexities in an
employer-employee
relationship
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Suggested Teaching
BTIs Content Suggested Assessment BTIs
Learning Activities
Chapter 1. Constitutional 1. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
Framework of Labor Discussion 1. Pen and Paper quiz
2. Class participation
1.1.1 a. The Right to Self-
[A] Organization
b. The Collective Bargaining
c. Security of Tenure of an
Employee
d. Humane Working
Conditions
e. Participative Management
f. The Right to Strike
g. Just Share and Reasonable
Return
h. Comprehensive Agrarian
Reform Program
i. Subsistence Fisherman
1.1.1 Chapter 2. Start of Employer – 2. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
[A] Employee Relationship Discussion/Reporting 1.Pen and Paper quiz
2.Class participation
a. The Guild System and the
Domestic System
b. The industrial Revolution
• The Factory System
• Societal Effects of
the Factory System
c. Employer-Employee
Relationship
• Employee –
Employee
Relationship
Complexities
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 At the end of the week, the
Week 3 student should be able to: 1.1.1 Chapter 3. The Labor 3. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
[A] Organization Discussion/Reporting 1.Pen and Paper quiz
• Establish the need for an 2.Class participation
organization a. Need for Organization
• Discuss unionism in the • Unionism
world and in the Philippines • Trade Union,
• Recognize trade union Contribution and
contributions and effects Effects
• Describe the labor b. The Labor Organizations
organization in the in the Philippines
Philippines including • Registration of Labor
registration, who may join, Organization
rights and conditions or • Who may Join Union
membership • Rights and
• Illustrate unfair labor Contributions of
practices of employers and Membership
labor organizations or both. c. Unfair Labor Practices
• Unfair Labor
Practices of
Employers
• Unfair Labor
Practices of Labor
Organizations
• Unfair Labor
Practices of Both
Employers and Labor
Organizations
• Unfair Labor
Practices of Labor
Unions

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Week 4 At the end of the week, the
students should be able to:
● Generalize human in terms
of pride of work and
acceptance by fellow
employees
● Identify problems of
employees
● Determine how to use
counseling to solve
employee problems
● Describe concepts and
reasons for disciplinary
actions
● Discuss disciplinary
program for employees
Week 5 At the end of the week, the
students should be able to:
● Define collective
bargaining
● Comparing individual
bargaining with collective
bargaining
● Name the strengths of
collective bargaining
procedure
● Identify steps in collective
bargaining procedure
● Determine negotiation
techniques and issue
● Explain petition for
certification on election
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1.1.1 Chapter 4. The Human 4. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
[A] Elements in an Industrial Discussion/Reporting 1. Pen and Paper quiz
Organization 2. Class participation
a. Employees are Human
• Pride in Work
• Acceptance by Fellow
Employees
b. Problems of Employees
• Counseling
• Disciplinary Actions
• Disciplinary Programs
1.1.1 Chapter 5. Collective 5. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
[A] Bargaining Discussion/Reporting 1.Pen and Paper quiz
2.Class participation
c. Views on Collective Bargaining
• Individual vs Collective
Bargaining
• Strength of Collective
Bargaining
d. Duty to Bargaining Collectively
• Counseling
• Disciplinary Actions
• Disciplinary Programs
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Week 6 At the end of the week, the
students should be able to:
• Explain the birth of the
wage system
• Discuss renumeration of
workers
• Discuss wage system in the
Philippines
• Examine regulations on
wages
• Present wage studies for
fixing minimum wage in
the country
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1.1.1 Chapter 6. Wages 6. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
[A] Discussion/Reporting 1.Pen and Paper quiz
a. Birth of the Wage System 2.Class participation
b. Renumeration of workers
• Workers Income
• Real Wage and
Money Wage
• Wages ang What they
represent
• Wage Inequalities
c. Wage System in the
Philippines
• Forms of Payment
• Terms of Payment
• Direct Payment of
Wages
• Place of Payment
d. Regulations of Wages
• Non-interference in
Disposal of wage
• Wage Reduction
• Deposit for loss or
damage
• Withholding of Wages
• Civil Liability of
Employer and Contractor
e. Wage Studies
• Minimum Wage
System
• Criteria for Minimum
Wage Fixing
• Theory Underlying
Legal Minimum Wage
• Minimum Wage Law
in the Philippines
• Wage and Good Labor
Relations
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Week 7 At the end of the week, the 1.1.1 [A,B] Chapter 7. Hours of Work 7. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
students should be able to: Discussion/Reporting 1. Pen and Paper quiz
a. Hours of Work in the 2. Seatwork
● Discuss hours of working Early Times 3. Class participation
early times • Arguments for
● Enumerate reasons to Shorter Hours of
consider for a shorter week Work
● Examine objections to shorter • Objection to
hours of work Shorter Hours of
● Explain the four-day work Work
week concept • Vagueness of Ideal
● Describe regulations of work Working Day
in the Philippines considering b. Regulations on Hours of
work hours, determining Work
work hours, waiting time, c. Work Hours in the
power brownouts, overtime, Philippines
weekly rest period, • Exemption
compensation for rest period, • Determining
when offices are suspended, hours worked
absences and period • Waiting Time
shutdown or temporary • Power brownouts
cessation of work. • Overtime
• Weekly-hours
period
• Compensation
for rest day when
offices are
suspended
• Absences
• Periodic
shutdown of
temporary
cessation of work

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Week 8 At the end of the week, the 1.1.1 [A,B] Chapter 8. Working Conditions
students should be able to: 8. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
a. Working Areas Discussion/Reporting 1.Pen and Paper quiz
• Describe physical facilities in • Physical Facilities 2.Seatwork
working areas • Important Factors in 3.Class participation
• Identify work requirements to Physical Facilities
designs effective b. Working Conditions
environments • Color
• Discuss health and safety • Heating the paint
regulations in the • Air conditioning
workplace • Noise and Vibrations
• Other facilities
c. Health and Safety
• Facilities for Women
d. Health Program
• Health Services
e. Medical and Dental
Services
• Emergency Medical
and Dental Services
f. Safety Programs
• Accident’s
prevention-the Human
Element
• Three E’s of
Accidents Prevention
• On Manual Handling
• Safety in the Office
• The need far a safe
workplace for all

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Week 9 At the end of the week, the Chapter 9. Incentives and 9. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
students should be able to: 1.1.1 [A,B] Fringe Benefits Discussion/Reporting 1.Pen and Paper quiz
2.Seatwork
• Identify the different financial a. Financial Incentives 3.Class participation
incentives being given to • Money as Motivator
employees. • Bonus
• Enumerate several non- • Profit-Sharing
financial benefits being • Service Incentive
offered by employers. Leave
• The 13th Month Pay
• Paid Legal Holiday
• Maternity Leave
• Paternity Leave
• Transportation
Expense
• Payments of
uniform or work
clothes
• Company Loans
• Education Aid
b. Non-financial Incentive
• Psychic Income
• Restaurant and
Criteria Facilities
• Company Stores
• Stockownership
• Legal Services
• Family Planning
Services
• Incentives for
Family Planning
• Group Insurance

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Week 10 At the end of the week, the
students should be able to:
• Differentiate regular from
probationary employment
• Discuss apprenticeship
training
• Distinguish learnership
agreement
• Name unlawful acts against
women in employment
• Explain employment of non-
resident aliens
• Examine regulation on
recruitment
• Illustrate employment of
housekeepers
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1.1.1 [A,B] Chapter 10. Employment and 10. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
Security of Tenure Discussion/Reporting 1.Pen and Paper quiz
2.Seatwork
a. Regular and Casual 3.Class participation
Employment
b. Probationary
Employment
c. Apprenticeship Training
• Qualifications of
Apprenticeship
• Apprenticeship
Programs
• Probationary Period of
Apprenticeship
• Termination of
Apprenticeship
e. Leadership Agreement
f. Employment of
Nonresident-aliens
g. Regulations of
Recruitment
• Prohibited Practice
h. Termination of
employment
• Termination by
Employer
• Termination by
employee
• Termination pays
i. Employment of House
keepers
j. Manpower Development
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Week 11 At the end of the week, the
students should be able to:
• Describe the nature of strikes
• Define the general
characteristics of strikes
• Discuss the right to strike
• Identify forms of strike
• Narrate violence strike
• Determine strikes and
lockouts in vital industries
• Discuss decision to declare
strikes and prohibitions
• Describe lockout
• Enumerate other weapons for
industrial conflict
• Discuss the demerits bad
industrial relations
1.1.1 [A,B] Chapter 11. Employment and 11. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
Security of Tenure Discussion/Reporting 1.Pen and Paper quiz
2.Seatwork
a. Strikes 3.Class participation
• The General
Characteristics of
Strike
• The right to strike
• Forms of Strike
• Violence in Strikes
• Strikes and Lockouts in
Vital industries
• Decision to Declare
Strikes
• Prohibited Activities
• Editorial on Strikes
b. Lockouts
• Strikes and Lockouts
• Declaration of Lock
outs
c. Other Weapons
d. The Public in
industrial conflicts

Week 12 At the end of the week, the student Chapter 12. Labor Relations 12. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
1.1.1 [B,C]
should be able to: Discussion/Reporting 1. Pen and Paper quiz
a. National Labor 2. Seatwork
● Describe the nature of work, Relations Commission 3. Class participation
rules and regulations, • Rule and Regulations
Jurisdictions and grounds for b. Jurisdiction of the
appeal of NLRC. Commission
● Identify when to make an • Grounds for appeal
appeal to the secretary of • Appeals to the
labor and to the president secretary of labor
● Determine the nature of and employment
work, action on application, • Appeals to the

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 cancellation of registration president
and appeal of BLR. c. The Bureau of Labor
● Recognize development of • Relations
the DOLE. • Actions on
● Define intra union disputes Application
● Discuss who are labor • Cancellation of
arbiters, their jurisdiction, Registration
how to appeal their decisions • Appeal
● Explain voluntary arbitration, • Intra-Union
the process and conflict Conflicts
resolution • Restructuring of
● Illustrate clearance to shut the Labor
down or dismiss employees. Movement
d. Labor Arbiters
• Jurisdiction of
Labor arbiters and
the commission
• Appeal
e. Voluntary Arbitration
• Labor
management –
dispute subject to
voluntary
arbitration
1. Clearance to Shut down
or Dismiss

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Week 13 At the end of the week, the student 1.1.1 [B,C] Chapter 13. Grievance Machinery 13. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
should be able to: Discussion/Reporting 1. Pen and Paper quiz
a. Preventing 2. Class participation
• Discuss how to prevent Misunderstanding from
misunderstanding in the going out of hand
workplace • Employee grievances
• Enumerate employee • Value of complaints
grievances and Grievances
• Explain formal grievance b. Formal Grievance
procedure Procedure
• Describe steps in the
• Step in adjusting
adjusting grievances
grievances
• Define voluntary
• Voluntary arbitration
• Determine manner of
choosing a good arbiter • The Award
• Illustrate award given by
voluntary arbiter

Week 14 At the end of the week the 1.1.1 [A,C] Chapter 14. Appraisal of 14. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
students should be able to: Employee Discussion/Reporting 1. Pen and Paper quiz
2. Seatwork
● Enumerate Objectives of a. Objectives of Appraisal 3. Class participation
appraisal b. Evaluation Program
● Describe how to develop an • Developing an Evaluation
evaluation program Program
● Identify kinds of merit point c. Kinds of Merit Rating-Point
system methods System
● Determine importance of • Forced Choice Method
feedback in appraisal • Critical-accident method
● Explain reliability of rating • Appraisal by results or
and rating errors in appraisal. objectives
• The Field review method
d. Other measurement used in
merit rating
• Actual Cost of
Production
• Man to Man Rating
• Job performance

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 • Ranking Verbal
Description
• Employee should be told
where he stands
e. Ratings and their reliability
• Rating Errors
f. Employee Performance
Rating Checklist

Week 15 At the end of the week the 1.1.1 [A,C] Chapter 15. 1.Good and effective 15. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
students should be able to: Communication Discussion/Reporting 1. Pen and Paper quiz
2. Seatwork
• Define good and 1. Good and effective 3. Class participation
effective communication Communication
• Enumerate ten • The Ten Commandments
commandments for good for good communication
communication • Signs of successful for
• Identify signs of good communication
communication b. Employee Communication
• Distinguish different Media
employee c. Other Communication
communication media Channel
• Explain the nature of d. The Grapevine
grapevine e. The suggestion system
• Discuss the suggestion f. Communicating Employee
system Benefits
• Explain how to g. Communicating Company
communicate employee Policy
• Promotion
benefits
• Transfer
• Elucidate how to
• Demolition
communicate company
• Layoffs
policy in promotion,
demotion, transfer and
layoffs

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Week 16 At the end of the week the
students should be able to:
• Identify factors that will
contribute to higher
productivity
• Enumerate obstacles to
higher productivity
• Determine foundations of
sound labor management
relations program
Week 17 At the end of the week the students
should be able to:
• Discuss the nature of
mandatory retirement
• Identify the pros and cons
of mandatory retirement
• Determine policies of
mandatory retirement
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1.1.1 [A,C] Chapter 16. Developing a sound 16. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
management relations program Discussion/Reporting 1. Pen and Paper quiz
2. Seatwork
a. Factors which contribute to 3. Class participation
higher productivity
b. Obstacles to higher
productivity
c. Foundations of a sound
labor-management relations
program
d. Study of labor management
relations
e. Labor management
committees
1.1.1 [A,C] Chapter 17. Mandatory Retirement 17. Content Focus / Formative Assessment: 1.1.1
Discussion/Reporting 1. Pen and Paper quiz
a. Understanding of mandatory 2. Seatwork
retirement 3. Class participation
b. Pros and cons of mandatory
retirement
c. Policies on retirement
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 Suggested References
Angelita Ong Camilar-Serrano (2015). Labor Relations Management and Negotiations. Unlimited books Library services and Publishing
Dole Bwc (2022). The Labor Code of the Philippines Renumbered DOLE Edition. Dole BWC
Dole (2022). Handbook worker’s statutory monetary benefits 2022 edition. Dole BWC

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