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January 23, 2018
Published by Atty Elvin B. Villanueva at January 23, 2018
DEATH BENEFITS RULE TO DETERMINE WHICH AMONG THE POEA-SEC, ITF, OR CBA PROVISIONS WILL BE APPLICABLE
Death benefit is one of those guaranteed to the seafarer. However, where the provisions of ITF, POEA-SEC, and CBA do not provide the same amount, the […]
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January 25, 2018
Published by Atty Elvin B. Villanueva at January 25, 2018
Reinstatement without backwages is the remedy if the employees were not illegally dismissed but also did not abandon their jobs. Where reinstatement was already impossible by […]
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January 25, 2018
Published by Atty Elvin B. Villanueva at January 25, 2018
Employer cannot bear the economic burden in a case where reinstatement is not possible due to strained relations. Thus, the SC ruled in a November 20, […]
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January 25, 2018
Published by Atty Elvin B. Villanueva at January 25, 2018
Tax rules on employee compensation and benefits change dramatically with the TRAIN law. On December 19, 2017 Congress enacted R.A. 10963, otherwise known as the Tax […]
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January 30, 2018
Published by Atty Elvin B. Villanueva at January 30, 2018
Notice of closure with the DOLE does not render the dismissals of complainants, which were based on an authorized cause, illegal. Thus, the SC held in […]
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January 30, 2018
Published by Atty Elvin B. Villanueva at January 30, 2018
Piercing the veil of corporate fiction is a legal precept that allows a corporation’s separate personality to be disregarded under certain circumstances, so that a corporation […]
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January 31, 2018
Published by Atty Elvin B. Villanueva at January 31, 2018
13th month pay, SILP and COLA that were awarded by the NLRC and the CA refer to the benefits that complainants would be entitled to had […]
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February 1, 2018
Published by Atty Elvin B. Villanueva at February 1, 2018
Fraudulent concealment of the stenting procedure during the PEME does not bar the seafarer’s right to disability benefit under the POEA-SEC considering that it does not […]
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February 3, 2018
Published by Atty Elvin B. Villanueva at February 3, 2018
Project employees should be informed of the duration and scope of the employment which should be specified at the time they were engaged and that there […]
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