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(4) Claims for actual, moral, exemplary and other forms of damages arising
from the employer-employee relations;

(5) Cases arising from any violation of Article 264 of this Code, including
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questions involving the legality of strikes and lockouts; and

(6) Except claims for Employees Compensation, Social Security, Medicare 168
and maternity benefits, all other claims arising from employer-employee
relations, including those of persons in domestic or household service, involving
an amount exceeding five thousand pesos (P5,000.00) regardless of whether
accompanied with a claim for reinstatement.

(b) The Commission shall have exclusive appellate jurisdiction over all cases
decided by Labor Arbiters.

(c) Cases arising from the interpretation or implementation of collective
bargaining agreements and those arising from the interpretation or enforcement of
company personnel policies shall be disposed of by the Labor Arbiter by referring
the same to the grievance machinery and voluntary arbitration as may be provided in
said agreements.

ART. 225. [218] Powers of the Commission. 169 The Commission shall have the
power and authority:

(a) To promulgate rules and regulations governing the hearing and disposition
of cases before it and its regional branches, as well as those pertaining to its internal
functions and such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the
purposes of this Code;

(b) To administer oaths, summon the parties to a controversy, issue subpoenas
requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses or the production of such
books, papers, contracts, records, statement of accounts, agreements, and others as
may be material to a just determination of the matter under investigation, and to
testify in any investigation or hearing conducted in pursuance of this Code;

(c) To conduct investigation for the determination of a question, matter or
controversy within its jurisdiction, proceed to hear and determine the disputes in the
absence of any party thereto who has been summoned or served with notice to
appear, conduct its proceedings or any part thereof in public or in private, adjourn

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Now Article 279, as renumbered.

168 R.A. No. 7875, National Health Insurance Act of 1995, repealed the laws applying to the Medicare and initiated the National Health Insurance Program intending to provide health
insurance coverage and health care services for all Filipinos. To carry out the program, the law also created the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, which has taken over the assets and
functions of the Philippine Medical Care Commission.

169 Pars. (a), (d), and (e) are shown herein as amended by Sec. 10 of R.A. No. 6715 (1989).

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