Financial statements must be presented to prove validity of retrenchment based on losses. However, the fact that the FS is incomplete but clearly explained by the […]
D.O. 174, Series of 2017, applies only to trilateral relationship which characterizes contracting or subcontracting arrangement. There are cases where the D.O. 174 has no application. […]
Disability rating must be made by the company-designated physician within the period prescribed. Otherwise, the total and permanent disability will be deemed established. Dario A. Carcedo, […]
Legal spouse declared as beneficiary prior to the declaration of the second “wife” with SSS does not lose her entitlement to the SSS benefits absent any […]
Post employment medical examination is mandatory as required in POEA-SEC provisions. The rationale for the rule on mandatory post-employment medical examination within three days from repatriation by […]
Employment contracts govern the relations of the employer and the employee. However, there are times that they are obliquely crafted to avoid the findings of employer-employee […]
Offensive, obscene, or insulting language made against a superior is serious misconduct. The Supreme Court held in the following case: Roque B. Benitez and Santa Fe […]
Post-employment medical examination is required under the 1996 POEA SEC. The seafarer must submit himself to a post-employment medical examination within three days from his arrival […]