Social Security System (SSS); Government Service Insurance System (GSIS); and Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC).

IC). JURISDICTION OF LABOR ARBITERS 3. What is the nature of jurisdiction of Labor Arbiters? The jurisdiction is original and exclusive in nature. Labor Arbiters have no appellate jurisdiction. 4. What are the cases falling under the jurisdiction of the Labor Arbiters? Labor Arbiters have jurisdiction over the following cases 1. Unfair labor practice (ULP) cases; 2. Termination disputes (or illegal dismissal cases); 3. Cases that workers may file involving wages, rates of pay, hours of work and other terms and conditions of employment, if accompanied with claim for reinstat ement; 4. Claims for actual, moral, exemplary and other forms of damages arising from t he employer-employee relations; 5. Cases arising from any violation of Article 264 of this Code, including quest ions involving the legality of strikes and lockouts; and 6. Except claims for Employees Compensation, Social Security, Medicare and maternit y benefits, all other claims arising from employer-employee relations, including those of persons in domestic or household service, involving an amount exceedin g five thousand pesos (P5,000.00) regardless of whether accompanied with a claim for reinstatement. 5. What are the money claims over which Labor Arbiters have jurisdiction? Money claims falling within the original and exclusive jurisdiction of the Labor Arbiters may be classified as follows: 1. any money claim, regardless of amount, accompanied with a claim for reinstate ment (which involves a termination case); or 2. any money claim, regardless of whether accompanied with a claim for reinstate ment, exceeding the amount of P5,000.00 per claimant (which does not necessarily involve termination of employment). 6. What is the effect of receivership or liquidation of business on the jurisdic tion of Labor Arbiters? The jurisdiction conferred upon Labor Arbiters and the NLRC would not be lost si mply because the assets of a former employer had been placed under receivership or liquidation. 7. What is the effect of rehabilitation receivership on monetary claims of worke rs? RUBBERWORLD (PHILS.), INC. VS. NLRC, ET AL., (G. R. No. 128003, July 26, 2000) R ehabilitation receivership of a company issued by the SEC has the effect of susp ending all proceedings in all judicial or quasi-judicial bodies. The NLRC may no t proceed with hearing of monetary claims. If already decided, the monetary awar ds cannot be executed. To proceed with the labor proceedings is grave abuse of d iscretion. Only when there is liquidation that the monetary claims may be asserted. (ALEMAR S S IBAL AND SONS, INC. VS. NLRC, ET AL. G. R. No. 114761, January 19, 2000) The suspe nsion of the proceedings is necessary to enable the rehabilitation receiver to e ffectively exercise its powers free from any judicial or extra-judicial interfer ence that might unduly hinder the rescue of the distressed company. Once the rec eivership proceedings have ceased and the