Practice question
A seafarer without a CBA completes the applicable grievance process and conciliation-mediation without settlement. The manning agency argues that the absence of a CBA makes every later labor remedy impossible, while the seafarer argues that the statute automatically places every conceivable claim in voluntary arbitration. Which is best?
- Section55(b) preserves the subsequent option of compulsory or voluntary arbitration under the governing law; neither blanket claim is correct
- No CBA means no enforceable employment rights
- Every special statutory benefit forum is automatically abolished
- The agency may conclusively decide its own liability
- The worker must accept a private blacklist as the only remedy
Legal references
- RA12021, Section55(b); DO247-2025 RuleIII Section1: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2024/ra_12021_2024.html
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