2025 Search for Outstanding Labor-Management Cooperation for Industrial Peace

The Outstanding LMC for Industrial Peace Award started in 1998 in recognition of the significant role of Labor-Management Committees/ Councils in the maintenance of industrial peace. Since then, NCMB has continued to benchmark best practices and success stories among companies proving that LMCs or other similar mechanisms at the workplace level can serve as valuable channels for communication, information-sharing, consultation, collaboration, employee involvement, and joint-problem solving. These mechanisms have greatly contributed in enhancing labor-management relations towards company efficiency, productivity, and competitiveness.

2025 Search for Outstanding Grievance Machinery for Industrial Peace

In collaboration with the Tripartite Voluntary Arbitration Advisory Council (TVAAC), the NCMB started the “Search for Best Enterprise Based Dispute Resolution Practices” in 2013, in recognition of the efforts of labor and management in resolving issues at the company level, thereby, contributing greatly in enhancing labor-management relations. The Search has been a valuable means to showcase the benefits of an effective grievance management system. It has also given the Board another platform to strengthen its advocacy of the Grievance Machinery (GM) program. Thus, in 2017, the Search was renamed “Search for Outstanding Grievance Machinery for Industrial Peace” for better name recall and to give emphasis on the GM program.

The Search continues to benchmark best practices and success stories on dispute resolution among organized and unorganized companies to serve as models and inspiration for other companies to emulate and follow.