Art. 242. Rights of legitimate labor organizations. A legitimate labor organization shall have the right: b. To be certified as the exclusive representative of all the employees in an appropriate bargaining unit for purposes of collective bargaining;

RULE VIII CERTIFICATION ELECTIONSection 1. Who may file. -Any legitimate labor organization may file a petition for certification election.

When requested to bargain collectively, an employer may file a petition for certification election with the Regional Office. If there is no existing registered collective bargaining agreement in the bargaining unit, the Regional Office shall, after hearing, order the conduct of a certification election.

Art. 256. Representation issue in organized establishments. In organized establishments, when a verified petition questioning the majority status of the incumbent bargaining agent is filed before the Department of Labor and Employment within the sixty-day period before the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement, the Med-Arbiter shall automatically order an election by secret ballot when the verified petition is supported by the written consent of at least twenty-five percent (25%) of all the employees in the bargaining unit to ascertain the will of the employees in the appropriate bargaining unit. To have a valid election, at least a majority of all eligible voters in the unit must have cast their votes. The labor union receiving the majority of the valid votes cast shall be certified as the exclusive bargaining agent of all the workers in the unit. When an election which provides for three or more choices results in no choice receiving a majority of the valid votes cast, a run-off election shall be conducted between the labor unions receiving the two highest number of votes: Provided, that the total number of votes for all contending unions is at least fifty percent (50%) of the number of votes cast.At the expiration of the freedom period, the employer shall continue to recognize the majority status of the incumbent bargaining agent where no petition for certification election is filed.

Art. 253-A. Terms of a collective bargaining agreement. Any Collective Bargaining Agreement that the parties may enter into shall, insofar as the representation aspect is concerned, be for a term of five (5) years. No petition questioning the majority status of the incumbent bargaining agent shall be entertained and no certification election shall be conducted by the Department of Labor and Employment outside of the sixty-day period immediately before the date of expiry of such five-year term of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. All other provisions of the CollectiveBargaining Agreement shall be renegotiated not later than three (3) years after its execution. Any agreement on such other provisions of the Collective Bargaining Agreement entered into within six (6) months from the date of expiry of the term of such other provisions as fixed in such CollectiveBargaining Agreement, shall retroact to the day immediately following such date. If any such agreement is entered into beyond six months, the parties shall agree on the duration of retroactivity thereof. In case of a deadlock in the renegotiation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the parties may exercise their rights under this Code. (As amended by Section 21, Republic Act No. 6715, March 21, 1989)

(ll) "Organized Establishment" refers to an enterprise where there exists a recognized or certified sole and exclusive bargaining agent.

RULE VIII Section 3. When to file.(d) when a collective bargaining agreement between the employer and a duly recognized or certified bargaining agent has been registered in accordance with Article 231 of the Labor Code. Where such collective bargaining agreement is registered, the petition may be filed only within sixty (60) days prior to its expiry.

Section 13. Order/Decision on the petition. - Within ten (10) days from the date of the last hearing, the Med-Arbiter shall issue a formal order granting the petition or a decision denying the same. In organized establishments, however, no order or decision shall be issued by the Med-Arbiter during the freedom period. The order granting the conduct of a certification election shall state the following:

(a) the name of the employer or establishment;(b) the description of the bargaining unit;(c) a statement that none of the grounds for dismissal enumerated in the succeeding paragraph exists;(d) the names of contending labor unions which shall appear as follows: petitioner union/s in the order in which their petitions were filed, forced intervenor, and no union; and(e) a directive upon the employer and the contending union(s) to submit within ten (10) days from receipt of the order, the certified list of employees in the bargaining unit, or where necessary, the payrolls covering the members of the bargaining unit for the last three (3) months prior to the issuance of the order.

RULE VIIICERTIFICATION ELECTIONSection 1. Who may file. -Any legitimate labor organization may file a petition for certification election. When requested to bargain collectively, an employer may file a petition for certification election with the Regional Office. If there is no existing registered collective bargaining agreement in the bargaining unit, the Regional Office shall, after hearing, order the conduct of a certification election.

Section 4. Form and contents of petition. - The petition shall be in writing, verified under oath by the president of petitioning labor organization. Where the petition is filed by a federation or national union, it shall verified under oath by the president or its duly authorized representative. The petition shall contain the following:(a) the name of petitioner, its address, and affiliation if appropriate, the date and number of its certificate of registration. If the petition is filed by a federation or national union, the date and number of the certificate of registration or certificate of creation of chartered local;(b) the name, address and nature of employer's business;(c) the description of the bargaining unit;(d) the approximate number of employees in the bargaining unit;(e) the names and addresses of other legitimate labor unions in the bargaining unit;(f) a statement indicating any of the following circumstances:1) that the bargaining unit is unorganized or that there is no registered collective bargaining agreement covering the employees in the bargaining unit;2) if there exists a duly registered collective bargaining agreement, that the petition is filed within the sixty-day freedom period of such agreement; or3) if another union had been previously recognized voluntarily or certified in a valid certification, consent or run-off election, that the petition is filed outside the one-year period from entry of voluntary recognition or conduct of certification or run-off election and no appeal is pending thereon.(g) in an organized establishment, the signature of at least twenty-five percent (25%) of all employees in the appropriate bargaining unit shall be attached to the petition at the time of its filing; and(h) other relevant facts.

(g) in an organized establishment, the signature of at least twenty-five percent (25%) of all employeesin the appropriate bargaining unit shall be attached to the petition at the time of its filing;(e) in case of an organized establishment, failure to submit the twenty-five percent (25%) supportrequirement for the filing of the petition for certification election.Section 7. Forced Intervenor. - The incumbent bargaining agent shall automatically be one of the choices in the certification election as forced intervenor.Section 8. Motion for Intervention. - When a petition for certification election was filed in an organized establishment, any legitimate labor union other than the incumbent bargaining agent operating within the bargaining unit may file a motion for intervention with the Med-Arbiter during the freedom period of the collective bargaining agreement. The form and contents of the motion shall be the same as that of a petition for certification election.In an unorganized establishment, the motion shall be filed at any time prior to the decision of the Med- Arbiter. The form and contents of the motion shall likewise be the same as that of a petition for certification election. The motion for intervention shall be resolved in the same decision issued in the petition for certification election.Art. 257. Petitions in unorganized establishments. In any establishment where there is no certified bargaining agent, a certification election shall automatically be conducted by the Med- Arbiter upon the filing of a petition by a legitimate labor organization. (As amended by Section 24, Republic Act No. 6715, March 21, 1989)When requested to bargain collectively, an employer may file a petition for certification election with the Regional Office. If there is no existing registered collective bargaining agreement in the bargaining unit, the Regional Office shall, after hearing, order the conduct of a certification election.