Contract of employment takes effect only between the parties, their assigns and heirs, except in case where the lights and obligations arising from the contract are […]
Retrenchment or downsizing is a mode of terminating employment initiated by the employer through no fault of the employee and without prejudice to the latter, resorted […]
Seniority cannot be the sole basis for the selection in retrenchment. The post below is part of this author’s digest of the decision of the Supreme […]
FASAP, or the Flight Attendants and Stewards Association of the Philippines, has long been fighting the case of illegal retrenchment against PAL. The case has caught […]
Probationary period is usually six (6) months. An employee who has served the employer for at least six months shall become regular employee by operation of […]
Reduction of workdays should comply with the DOLE issued Department Advisory No. 2, Series of 2009 on requirement that the employer should notify DOLE of the […]
Moral damages include physical suffering, mental anguish, fright, serious anxiety, besmirched reputation, wounded feelings, moral shock, social humiliation, and similar injury. Though incapable of pecuniary computation, […]
Insubordination or willful disobedience is a just cause for termination of employment listed under Article 297 (formerly Article 282) of the Labor Code. Renumbered Labor Code […]
