Practice question
A party seeks to call the conciliator as a witness about matters taken up in the conciliation conducted by that official. What statutory restriction applies?
- Privilege protects only final awards
- Every conciliator must repeat all settlement discussions
- Only the employer may decide privilege
- Failure to settle automatically removes privilege
- Conciliators and similar officials shall not testify about those conciliation matters in a court or body
Legal references
- Labor Code, former Articles 229, 231 and 233, Bureau subpoena, publication and conciliation-privilege provisions: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
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