On January 31, 2020, the Department of Labor and Employment ("DOLE") issued Labor Advisory No. 6, series of 2020, which prescribes the period for: [a] the payment and/or the release of the final pay; and [b] the issuance of Certificate of Employment to employees who are terminated from their employment.

The Department of Labor and Employment of the Philippines has announced that employers seeking to employ foreign national employees will be required to follow new policies under the Alien Employment Permit (AEP) program...

Reasonable connection, not direct causation. This is the essence of the Supreme Court's decision in Social Security System v. Violeta A. Simacas (G.R. No. 217866, 20 June 2022).

Probationary employment is an arrangement where an employee is placed on trial by the employer for a period of time, not to exceed six months, to allow the employer to determine whether the employee is fit for regularization.

This Q&A is part of the publication designed to provide insights into hiring remote workers in Asia Pacific by members of the Employment Law Alliance (ELA). SyCipLaw contributed the guide for the Philippine jurisdiction.

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.

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.

In light of ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and the resulting volatility in global energy markets, the Philippine President issued Memorandum Circular No. 114, directing national government agencies, including government-owned or controlled corporations, to adopt energy conservation measures.

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