Text of the provision
Art. 289. Formation, maintenance and prohibition of combination of capital or labor through violence or threats. - The penalty of arresto mayor and a fine not exceeding Sixty thousand pesos (₱60,000) shall be imposed upon any person who, for the purpose of organizing, maintaining or preventing coalitions of capital or labor, strike of laborers or lock-out of employers, shall employ violence or threats in such a degree as to compel or force the laborers or employees in the free and legal exercise of their industry or work, if the act shall not constitute a more serious offense in accordance with the provisions of this Code.
Revised Penal Code of the Philippines, Act No. 3815, as amended. Reproduced in full from the official enactment and verified against the LawPhil and ChanRobles renderings.
What this article means
Anyone who uses violence or threats to organize, maintain or prevent coalitions of capital or labor, a strike or a lock-out, to a degree that compels workers in the free and legal exercise of their work, suffers arresto mayor and a fine not exceeding Sixty thousand pesos (₱60,000) — unless the act amounts to a more serious offense under this Code.
Related provisions
- Article 288 — Compulsory Purchase And Token Wages.
- Article 290 — Seizing Correspondence To Discover Secrets.
Penalty amounts. The text above is the article as amended by Republic Act No. 10951 (2017), which revised the property values and fines throughout this Code. Older reproductions of the Revised Penal Code still print the 1930 amounts — for theft and estafa they show 12,000 and 22,000 pesos where the current figures run to millions. Check which version any source you rely on is giving you.
Cases interpreting this article
- Authorities on this article will be added here as each is verified against primary sources.