Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Fifteenth Congress
Second Regular Session

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Introduced by Honorable Benhur L, Salimbangon

This bill secks to provide reasonable and regular compensation to all court-annexed
mediators in the country. It is likewise the purpose of this bill to provide regular compensation to
mediation center staff including operating expenses for all mediation centers in the Philippines.

Mediation is a very challenging job. Mediation works demand considerable time and
expense to the mediators in reporting fo the mediation center and also in attending to cases that
require them to mediate outside of the centers. But despite this very taxing job our mediators and
their staff perform, they however receive only very minimal remuneration. The mediators who
are considered volunteers are given a fee of only Five Hundred Pesos (500.00) for every
successful case that has been mediated.

With the consistent decline in the number of court-annexed mediators and staff vis-A-
vis the growing number of cases referred for mediation, it is only necessary that they be given
compensation that is reasonable, commensurate and regular_in keeping with the objective of the
program which is to provide an inexpensive, fast, and efficient resolution of cases. Importance
should be given to mediators as they are responsible for the de-clogging of court dockets and the
decline of cases that go to trial.

Hence, the immediate approval of this bill is earnestly recommended.



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Fifteenth Congress
Second Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 6108

Introduced by Honorable Benhur L. Salimbangon

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR COMPENSATION TO MEDIATORS
AND MEDIATION CENTER STAFF OF
THE PHILIPPINE MEDIATION CENTER

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress
assembled:

Section 1. This Act shall be knowm as the Mediators and Mediation Centers Staff
Compensation Act of 2012.

Section 2.It is hereby declared that court-annexed mediators in the country be given
reasonable and regular compensation notwithstanding the results of mediation. The staff of all
mediation centers in the Philippines shall likewise be provided reasonable and regular
compensation.

Section 3.The Supreme Court of the Philippines shall formulate the necessary
implementing rules and regulations that shall govern the implementation of this Act

Section 4.The amount necessary for the effective implementation of this Act shall be
included in the annual General Appropriations Act on the year following the approval of this Act
and in every year thereafter.

Section 5.Separability Clause. If, for any reason, any section of the Act shall be declared
unconstitutional or invalid, the other sections or provisions thereof shall not be affected thereby
and shall not be affected thereby and shall remain in force and effect.

Section 6.Repealing Clause. All laws, executive orders, decrees, instructions, rules and
regulations contrary to or inconsistent with any provision of this Act are hereby repealed or
modified accordingly.


Section 7.Effectivity Clause. This Act shall take effect immediately upon this approval.

APPROVED.