WORKERS'

ASSOCIATION
APPLICANT
Duly Accomplished & Notarized
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Application Form together with
other documentary
requirements

The application for registration of a workers?association shall be

FILING OF APPLICATION
Applications for
registration of
independent labor unions
shall be filed with the
Regional Office where the
applicant principally
operates. (Sec. 1, Rule III)
accompanied by the following documents:
1) Name of the applicant association, its principal address, the name of
its officers and their respective addresses; The application for
2) Minutes of the organizational meeting(s) and the list of members who registration of workers' One (1) original copy and
participated therein; association including all two (2) duplicate copies
3) Financial reports of the applicant association if it has been in the accompanying of all documents
existence for one or more years, unless it has not collected any amount documents, shall be accompanying the
from the members, in which case a statement to this effect shall be certified under oath by its application or notice
included in the application; Secretary or Treasurer, as shall be submitted to the
4) Applicant?s constitution and by-laws to which must be attached the the case may be, and Regional Office. (Sec. 3,
names of ratifying members, the minutes of adoption or ratification of attested to by its President. Rule IV)
the constitution and bylaws and the date when ratification was made, (Sec. 1, Rule IV)
unless ratification was done in the organizational meeting(s), in which
case such fact shall be reflected in the minutes of the organizational
meeting(s). (Sec 2(c), Rule III)

PROCESSING OF The Regional Office shall act on all applications for

APPLICATION registration within ten (10) days from receipt either
It will be processed by the by: (a) approving the application and issuing the
Labor Relations Division at certificate of registration; or (b) denying the
application/ notice for failure of the applicant to The memorandum of appeal
the Regional Office in
comply with the requirements for shall be filed with the Regional
accordance with Sec. 2(c).
registration/ notice. (Sec. 4, Rule IV) Office that issued the denial.
(Sec. 1, Rule III)
The memorandum of appeal
APPEAL together with the complete
Appeal the Order of Denial to the Bureau of records of the application for
registration shall be transmitted
Labor Relations within 10 days from receipt
by the Regional Office to the
APPROVAL OF APPLICATION DENIAL OF APPLICATION of such notice, on the ground of grave Bureau within twenty-four (24)
The workers' association shall GROUNDS: abuse of discretion or violation of these hours from receipt of the
be deemed registered and a.) Falsification or serious Rules. (Sec. 6, Rule IV) memorandum of appeal.
vested with legal personality on irregularities in the application The Bureau shall decide the
the date of issuance of its for registration or its supporting appeal within twenty (20) days
A worker's
asssociation shall be certificate of registration. Such documents. (Art. 239, LC); The notice of the Regional Office denying from receipt of the records of
issued a certificate of legal personality may be the application for registration shall be in the case. (Sec. 7, Rule IV)
registration upon questioned only through an b.) Non-compliance with the writing stating in clear terms the reasons for
REMEDIES
payment of the independent petition for certification and attestation the denial. (Sec. 6, Rule IV)
prescribed cancellation of union
registration fee. (Sec. requirement (Sec. 1, Rule IV); or
2, Rule IV)
registration in accordance with
Rule XIV of these Rules, and not c.) Failure to complete the RE-FILE
by way of collateral attack in registration requirements within Where the documents supporting the
petition for certification 30 days from notice (Sec. 5, Rule application for registration are incomplete
election proceedings under Rule IV). or do not contain the required certification
VIII. (Section 8, Rule IV) and attestation, the Regional Office shall,
within one (1) day from receipt of the
application/ notice, notify the
applicant/ labor organization concerned in
writing of the necessary requirements and
complete the same within thirty (30) days
from receipt of notice. Where the
applicant/ labor organization concerned
fails to complete the requirements within
the time prescribed, the application for
registration shall be denied, without
prejudice to filing a new application or
notice. (Sec. 5, Rule IV)
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