Philippine labour laws distinguish between two categories of employer-initiated terminations: (i) those involving blameworthy conduct (eg, serious misconduct, fraud, breach of trust, and gross and habitual neglect); and (ii) those involving economic motives (eg, redundancy, retrenchment, installation of labour-saving devices and closure).

Throughout the decades, the Philippines has been consistent in its efforts to close the gender gap in the workplace and to open up more opportunities for women.

The extra-territorial application of Philippine labour laws is often discussed in the context of overseas Filipino workers ("OFW")...

With more and more businesses seeing value in engaging skilled Filipino contractors to perform specific services, the persistent challenge that confronts them is misclassification of their contractors as their employees.

The Philippines faces a two-pronged conundrum on both environmental and industrial fronts. According to the International Labor Organization, the country is one of the most vulnerable to climate risks...

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing a shift in paradigm in how work is done in the Philippines. Whereas before long hours of stay in the office was the norm, the imposition of the Enhanced Community Quarantine ("ECQ")...

With rapid advances in technology and increasingly blurred borders, business organisations and individuals have adopted novel initiatives to better cater to and meet their demands.

Under the Philippine Labor Code, Republic Act (RA) No. 11058 (the Occupational Safety and Health Law) (the OSH Law) and its implementing rules and regulations (IRR), employers are mandated to...

With a mixture of emerging and booming economies, political uncertainty and extreme contrasts in business customs, Asia-Pacific jurisdictions can never be categorised as one homogeneous whole.

An employee may only be dismissed if there is a just or authorised cause for the dismissal. This policy is anchored on the principle of the security of tenure of employees, which is not only statutorily provided...

On the evening of 16 March 2020, the President of the Philippines declared that an enhanced community quarantine ("ECQ") was to be imposed on the island of Luzon.

Under the Department of Labor and Employment ("DOLE") Labor Advisory No. 6, series of 2020 or the Guidelines on the Payment of Final Pay and Issuance of Certificate of Employment...

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