The registration of Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) is closely monitored as an indicator of a harmonious labor-management relations and industrial peace in the country. A collective bargaining is a process where both parties, labor and management, agrees to fix and administer terms and conditions of employment which must not be below the minimum standards fixed by law. This also sets a mechanism for resolving the parties’ grievances.

The member states of the International Labour Organization (ILO) to which the Philippines is a member is composed of about 187 as of the latest count. These member countries usually meet every June of each year at the International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva, Switzerland. Each member state is represented by a delegation consisting of two (2) government delegates composed of an employer delegate and a worker delegate, and their respective advisers. The conference is sometimes called the “international parliament of labour” with its main task of crafting and adopting international labour standards in the form of Conventions and Recommendations.

The International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) is a meeting of experts on labor statistics spearheaded by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Statisticians/experts mostly coming from labour and national statistical offices, including employer’s and worker’s organizations, were invited to make recommendations on selected topics of labor statistics in the form of resolutions and guidelines.