NCMB Regional Branch No. 1 Director Brenda Rose C. Odsey was privileged to speak during a regular weekly meeting of the Rotary Club of the City of San Fernando, La Union.

 

The Rotarians invited Director Odsey to be their guest speaker during their September 11, 2014 meeting at Sea and Sky Hotel and Restaurant.

 

Considering that many of the present Rotarians are businessmen and are employers themselves, Odsey presented the Board’s programs focusing on LMC and Grievance Machinery.

 

“The LMC is a program focused on building a harmonious relationship between the labor and management taking both parties to cooperatively work on common goals using mutually acceptable means,” Odsey averred. “Setting up a LMC program in a company is neither a means to instigate unionism nor to supplant the union,” she added.

 

On grievance machinery, Director Odsey emphasized the idea that the government respects a bi-partite mechanism put up by the workers and their employer to resolve its own problems at their level. “We are here to guide you towards employing an alternative dispute resolution system in dealing with your employees’ grievances,” she said.

 

Concerns raised by the Rotarians include issues of probationary, contractual and project-based employees, minimum wage, minimum members to constitute a union, legality of firing an employee through the phone, and CSC’s line of work as compared to NCMB.

 

Among the members who attended are La Union 1st District Congressman Victor F. Ortega and San Fernando City Mayor Pablo C. Ortega. Joining them are prominent businessmen owning establishments from hotels to schools to grocery stores to warehouses and many others.