TWO companies were recognized during the 2nd Gawad Linaw Awards Friday night, December 7, for their innovative practices on labor and management relations.

The A.D. Gothong Manufacturing Corp. was named as winner for the large company category, while Cebu Furniture Support was hailed as champion for the small business category.

"We need to create more champions for industrial peace," Mandaue City Vice Mayor Carlo Fortuna said.

Home to more than 10, 000 businesses, the Mandaue City Government and the City Tripartite Industrial Peace Council (TIPC) developed the Gawad Linaw Awards to recognize and acknowledge businesses' efforts and to encourage social partners to continue its drive to enhance labor and management relations.

The criteria for judging include employee-management relationship (30 percent), state of labor-management relations and dispute resolution strategies (30 percent), productivity program (30 percent), and corporate social responsibility and accountability (10 percent) of potential awardees.

This year’s search was chaired by Fortuna, the alternate TIPC-MC chairman.

The board of judges was composed of the regional director of Regional Conciliation and Mediation Branch (RCMB) Edmundo Mirasol, vice president of the Human Resource and Admin of Cebu Landmasters Inc. Mario Balali, Occupation Safety and Health Center officer Engr. Gines Timosa, and University of San Jose-Recoletos Graduate School for Business and Management and School of Law professor Fr. Domingo Delos Angeles Jr., D.M.

The awarding was held at the Oakridge Pavilion.

The winners took home a trophy and P50,000.