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    Digest International Pharmaceuticals, Inc. vs. Secretary of Labor

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    The Secretary of Labor has the power to assume jurisdiction over labor disputes and related controversies that cause or could cause a strike or lockout in industries indispensable to national interest. The Secretary exercised this power over a dispute between a pharmaceutical company and a union representing 600 of its workers. The dispute arose from failed negotiations over a new collective bargaining agreement and resulted in a strike. The Secretary's order to consolidate related cases and assume jurisdiction allows the dispute to be resolved more efficiently and gives priority to protecting workers' rights in accordance with labor laws.

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    The Secretary of Labor has the power to assume jurisdiction over labor disputes and related controversies that cause or could cause a strike or lockout in industries indispensable to national interest. The Secretary exercised this power over a dispute between a pharmaceutical company and a union representing 600 of its workers. The dispute arose from failed negotiations over a new collective bargaining agreement and resulted in a strike. The Secretary's order to consolidate related cases and assume jurisdiction allows the dispute to be resolved more efficiently and gives priority to protecting workers' rights in accordance with labor laws.

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    The Secretary of Labor has the power to assume jurisdiction over labor disputes and related controversies that cause or could cause a strike or lockout in industries indispensable to national interest. The Secretary exercised this power over a dispute between a pharmaceutical company and a union representing 600 of its workers. The dispute arose from failed negotiations over a new collective bargaining agreement and resulted in a strike. The Secretary's order to consolidate related cases and assume jurisdiction allows the dispute to be resolved more efficiently and gives priority to protecting workers' rights in accordance with labor laws.

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    Digest International Pharmaceuticals, Inc. vs. Secretary of Labor

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    SECRETARY OF LABOR

    405. International Pharmaceuticals, Inc. vs. Secretary of Labor (205 SCRA 59 [1992]) - ******(DUMAOG)

    GR no. 92981-83, Jan. 9, 1992

    FACTS: Prior to the expiration on January 1, 1989 of the collective bargaining agreement between
    petitioner International Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (hereafter, Company) and the Associated Labor Union (Union,
    for brevity), the latter submitted to the Company its economic and political demands. These were not met by
    the Company, hence a deadlock ensued.

    On June 27, 1989, the Union filed a notice of strike with Regional Office No. VII of the National Conciliation and
    Mediation Board, Department of Labor and Employment, which was docketed as NCMB-RBVII-NS-06-050-89.
    After all conciliation efforts had failed, the Union went on strike on August 8, 1989 and the Company’s
    operations were completely paralyzed.

    Meanwhile, considering that the Company belongs to an industry indispensable to national interest,  it being
    engaged in the manufacture of drugs and pharmaceuticals and employing around 600 workers, then Acting
    Secretary of Labor, Ricardo C. Castro, invoking Article 263 (g) of the Labor Code, issued an order dated
    September 26, 1989 assuming jurisdiction over the aforesaid case docketed as NCMB-RBVII-NS-06-050-89 and
    directing the parties to return to the status quo before the work stoppage.

    ISSUE: WHETHER OR NOT THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT HAS THE
    POWER TO ASSUME JURISDICTION OVER A LABOR DISPUTE AND ITS INCIDENTAL CONTROVERSIES,
    INCLUDING UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE CASES, CAUSING OR LIKELY TO CAUSE A STRIKE OR LOCKOUT IN AN
    INDUSTRY INDISPENSABLE TO THE NATIONAL INTEREST.

    RULING: In the present case, the Secretary was explicitly granted by Article 263 (g) of the Labor Code
    the authority to assume jurisdiction over a labor dispute causing or likely to cause a strike or lockout in an
    industry indispensable to the national interest, and decide the same accordingly. Necessarily, this authority to
    assume jurisdiction over the said labor dispute must include and extend to all questions and controversies
    arising therefrom, including cases over which the labor arbiter has exclusive jurisdiction.

    In the present case, however, by virtue of Article 263 (g) of the Labor Code, the Secretary has been conferred
    jurisdiction over cases which would otherwise be under the original and exclusive jurisdiction of labor arbiters.
    There was an existing labor dispute as a result of a deadlock in the negotiation for a collective bargaining
    agreement and the consequent strike, over which the Secretary assumed jurisdiction pursuant to Article 263
    (g) of the Labor Code. The three NLRC cases were just offshoots of the stalemate in the negotiations and the
    strike. We, therefore, uphold the Secretary’s order to consolidate the NLRC cases with the labor dispute
    pending before him and his subsequent assumption of jurisdiction over the said NLRC cases for him to be able
    to competently and efficiently dispose of the dispute in its totality.

    Moreover, the rule is that all doubts in the interpretation and implementation of labor laws should be
    resolved in favor of labor. In upholding the assailed orders of the Secretary, the Court is only giving meaning to
    this rule. The Court should help labor authorities provide workers immediate access to their rights and
    benefits, without being hampered by arbitration or litigation processes that prove to be not only nerve-
    wracking, but financially burdensome in the long run. 13 Administrative rules of procedure should be construed
    liberally in order to promote their object and assist the parties, especially the workingman, in obtaining just,
    speedy, and inexpensive determination of their respective claims and defenses. By virtue of the assailed
    orders. The Union and its members are relieved of the burden of litigating their interrelated cases in different
    tribunals.

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