Good News
National Conciliation and Mediation Board
07 February 2017

The National Conciliation and Mediation Board awarded P6,934,138.97 in total monetary benefits to some 416 workers through the settlement of 352 Requests for Assistance received by the Board through the Single Entry Approach (SEnA) Program for January 2017, NCMB Executive Director Shirley M. Pascual announced today.

Pascual citing reports from Technical Services OIC Ronda D. Malimban said that a total of 352 RFAs were settled out of the 1,222 RFAs handled for the month.

The Board reported that the average duration to settle RFAs last only for 20 days while the average duration to dispose RFAs was computed at four days.

Pascual said that most of the issues raised in RFAs were on payment of monetary claims such as wages, overtime pay, sick incentive leaves, and other similar benefits.

In RCMB-CAR, eight (8) RFAs were settled for the same period. The average duration to resolve RFAs in RCMB-CAR lasts only for 12 days while average duration to dispose RFAs lasts only for 11 days.

The settlement of the 8 SENA cases facilitated P238,234.93 in monetary claims benefitting 39 workers.

RCMB 3 and RCMB 9 took only 7 days and 6 days, respectively to resolve the same number of cases settled by RCMB-CAR.

According to the reports, Pascual said, RCMB 3 has attained a settlement rate of 89% out of the 9 RFAs handled in January 2017.

RCMB 6 handled and settled 6 RFAs or 100% settlement rate for the same period, awarding P128,678.95 in monetary claims to 26 workers.

Accounting for the biggest bulk of settled cases, RCMB-NCR settled 191 RFAs which lead to the awarding of P3,427,664.52 in monetary benefits to 140 workers.

Average duration to settle RFAs in RCMB-NCR lasts only for 23 days while the average duration to dispose is 25 days. Meantime, RCMB 7 awarded P1,683,641.40 in monetary claims to 28 workers.

Pursuant to DOLE Department Order No. 107-10, series of 2010, the SEnA prescribes a 30-day mandatory period for the settlement of complaints filed by OFWs through conciliation, and that the agency that receives the complaint is duty-bound to act on it and not refer it to other agency.

END/ Gillian Pearl L. Guerrero with reports from Maggie B. Balagtey