The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCor)’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program has acquired reputation from the Department of Justice (DOJ) for accomplishing a excessive mediation fulfillment charge.
The reputation makes PAGCOR and the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines the best authorities-owned and managed corporations (GOCCs) to have earned such accreditation from the DOJ.
During the popularity rite held today, November 22, 2023, on the PAGCor Executive Office at New Coast Manila, DOJ Undersecretary Atty. Irene de Torres-Alogoc stated they had been inspired via way of means of the excessive fulfillment charge of PAGCor’s mediation application.
“We had been amazed via way of means of PAGCor’s excessive fulfillment charge,” stated Torres-Alogoc. “We wish to have more (fulfillment) due to the fact while there are disputes in an agency, it’s miles difficult to work. It influences the productiveness of the workplace itself.”
In its certificates of reputation, the DOJ’s Office for Alternative Dispute Resolution (OADR) stated PAGCor has effectively ‘complied with the necessities set forth below the OADR Accreditation Guidelines for Alternative Dispute Resolution Organizations and Training Standards for Alternative Dispute Resolution Practitioners withinside the area of Mediation’.”
The gaming agency’s accreditation may be legitimate till 2024.
PAGCor’s Public Alternative Dispute Resolution Program become shaped in compliance with Republic Act 9285, additionally called the Alternative Dispute Resolution Act of 2004, and Executive Order No. 97, s. 2012, which mandates authorities corporations to set up a gadget to solve disputes filed earlier than them.
The application goals to mitigate and keep away from animosity among or amongst PAGCor employees and different events that, if now no longer nicely addressed, might also additionally bring about the elevation of the disputes to the courts.
Some of the maximum not unusualplace instances being mediated below this system are alimony, spousal and toddler support, non-charge of simply debts, amongst others.