PHL Upholds Public Sector Workers' Right to Organize 

ILO Director General Guy Ryder receives the Instrument of Ratification of ILO Convention No. 151 from Ambassador Evan Garcia of the Philippine Mission to the United Nations in Geneva

19 October 2017 GENEVA - The Philippines affirmed its commitment to protect the right of employees in the public service to organize through the ratification of ILO Convention No. 151, the Convention concerning Protection of the Right to Organize and Procedures for Determining Conditions of Employment in the Public Service.

In a ceremony today at the ILO headquarters in Geneva, Ambassador Evan P. Garcia, Permanent Representative of the Philippine Mission to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, handed over to ILO Director General Guy Ryder the Philippine Government's Instrument of Ratification of ILO Convention No. 151. In turn, DG Ryder gave the Ambassador a Record of Deposit and Registration of the Instrument of Ratification.

DG Ryder praised the Philippines for having ratified 37 ILO conventions and is among the member states with the most number of instruments ratified, the latest of which are the Maritime Labor Convention 2006, and the Domestic Worker Convention (No. 189) 2011.

"The Philippines is committed to the promotion of sound labor relations between public authorities and public employees' organizations through the protection of the right to organize, as enshrined in our Constitution, and consistent with our national laws on public sector unionism," Ambassador Garcia remarked.

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte ratified Convention 151 on May 26, which ratification was concurred in by the Senate of the Philippines on August 14.  END

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