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LMT DAY One
LMT DAY One
LMT DAY One
3.) Second written notice. After determining RESIGNATION WITH JUST CAUSE:
that termination of employment is justified, (a) Serious insult by the employer or his
the employer shall serve the employees a representative on the honor and person of
written notice of termination indicating that: the employee;
1) all circumstances involving the charge/s (b) Inhuman and unbearable treatment
against the employee have been considered; accorded the employee by the employer or
and his representative;
2) grounds have been established to justify (c) Commission of a crime or offense by the
the severance of his employment employer or his representative against the
person of the employee or any of the
DUE PROCESS IN AUTHORIZED immediate members of his family; and
CAUSES: (d) Other causes analogous to any of the
Due process in authorized cause termination foregoing.
is deemed complied with upon the separate
and simultaneous service of a written notice RETIREMENT:
of the intended termination to both: (1) Optional retirement upon reaching the
(1) the employee to be terminated; and age of sixty (60) years.
(2) the appropriate DOLE Regional Office, (2) Compulsory retirement upon reaching
at least one (1) month before the intended the age of sixty-five (65) years
date of the termination specifying the
ground/s therefor and the undertaking to pay 5 years is the minimum years of service that
the separation pay required under Article must be rendered by the employee before he
283 of the Labor Code can avail of the retirement benefits upon
reaching optional or compulsory retirement
CONSTRUCTIVE DISMISSAL: age under Article 287.
1) An involuntary resignation resorted to
when continued employment is rendered For purposes of determining the minimum
impossible, unreasonable or unlikely; retirement pay due an employee under
2) A demotion in rank and/or a diminution Article 287, the term “one-half month
in pay; or salary” shall include all of the following:
3) A clear discrimination, insensibility or (1) Fifteen (15) days salary of the employee
disdain by an employer which becomes based on his latest salary rate.
unbearable to the employee that it could (2) The cash equivalent of five (5) days of
foreclose any choice by him except to forego service incentive leave;
his continued employment (3) One-twelfth (1/12) of the 13th month pay
due the employee; and
RESIGNATION WITHOUT JUST CAUSE: (4) All other benefits that the employer and
(a) The resigning employee should tender a employee may agree upon that should be
written (not verbal) notice of the termination included in the computation of the
(commonly known as “resignation letter”); employee’s retirement pay
(b) Service of such notice to the employer at
least one (1) month in advance; and LABOR ONLY CONTRACTING:
There is labor-only contracting if the Illegal recruitment when committed
person supplying workers to an employer by a syndicate or in large scale shall be
does not have substantial capital or considered as offense involving economic
investment in the form of tools, equipment, sabotage. Illegal recruitment is deemed
machineries, work premises, among others, committed in large scale if committed
and the workers recruited and placed by against three or more persons individually or
such person are performing activities which as a group. Illegal recruitment is deemed
are directly related to the principal business committed by a syndicate when it is carried
of such employer. out by a group of three or more persons
Labor-only contracting is prohibited conspiring or confederating with one
by law and the person acting as contractor another.
shall be considered merely as an agent of the
employer who shall be responsible to the ALIEN EMPLOYEES RIGHT TO JOIN
workers in the same manner and extent as if UNIONS:
the latter were directly employed by him. Jim as an alien employee may
On the other hand, there is job participate in union activities if he has a
contracting if a principal agrees to put out or valid working permit issued by the
farm out with a contractor or series of Department of Labor and provided that he is
contractors the performance or completion a national of a country which grants the
of a specific job, work or service within a same or similar rights to Filipino workers, as
definite or predetermined period, regardless certified by the Department of Foreign
of whether such job, work, or service is to be Affairs, or which has ratified either ILO
performed or completed within or outside Convention No. 87 and ILO Convention No.
the premises of the principal, provided that 98
the contractor has substantial capital or
investment and the workers recruited and FIXED TERM EMPLOYEES:
placed by such contractor are performing The Supreme Court has held that a
activities which are not directly related to fixed-term employment contract terminates
the principal business of the principal. by its own terms at the end of a definite
period and the fact that the service rendered
RECRUITMENT AND PLACEMENT: by the employees is usually necessary and
Recruitment and placement" refers to desirable in the business operations of the
any act of canvassing, enlisting, contracting, employer will not impair the validity of such
transporting, utilizing, hiring or procuring contracts nor will it make the employee a
workers, and includes referrals, contract regular one
services, promising or advertising for
employment, locally or abroad, whether for
profit or not:
Provided, That any person or entity
which, in any manner, offers or promises for
a fee, employment to two or more persons
shall be deemed engaged in recruitment and
placement.