Human

Resource
Management

Ms. Carmina L. Castillo, JD.RN.REB

 Learning Outcomes:
• After this chapter, the students should be
able to:
1.Define employment discrimination and
describe its various forms
2.Cite various discriminatory issues that
impact an organization’s HR
3.Identify EEO laws in the Philippines
Employment Discrimination
• Unjust or prejudicial treatment
• Specifically on the basis of
*Race
*Age
*Gender
*Religious
beliefs
Two categories of People
Protected by EEO Laws
• Protected Classifications
based on age, gender, skin color,
ethnicity and physical/mental disability

• Protected Groups
Subcategory of people within protected
classification
LGBT
Types of discrimination

• Intentional or Disparate Treatment

• Unintentional or Disparate Impact
 RA 7277

• “Magna Carta for Disabled Persons”.

Disabled Persons are those suffering from

restriction of different abilities, as a result
of a mental, physical or sensory
impairment, to perform an activity in the
manner or within the range considered
normal for a human being;
 RA 7277
• Impairment is any loss, diminution or aberration
of psychological, physiological, or anatomical
structure of function;
•
• Disability shall mean 1) a physical or mental
impairment that substantially limits one or more
psychological, physiological or anatomical
function of an individual or activities of such
individual; 2) a record of such an impairment; or
3) being regarded as having such an
impairment;
 Cont…
• Handicap refers to a disadvantage for a given individual
resulting from an impairment or a disability, that limits or
prevents the functions or activity, that is considered normal
given the age and sex of the individual;

• Social Barriers refer to the characteristics of institutions,

whether legal, economic, cultural, recreational or other, any
human group, community, or society which limit the fullest
possible participation of disabled persons in the life of the
group. Social barriers include negative attitudes which
tends to single out and exclude disabled persons and which
distort roles and inter-personal relationships;
Cont...
• SEC. 5. Equal Opportunity for
Employment. – No disabled persons shall
be denied access to opportunities for
suitable employment. A qualified disabled
employee shall be subject to the same
terms and conditions of employment x x x
SEC. 8. Incentives for Employers.

• Those who employ

additional deduction, from their gross income,
equivalent to twenty-five percent (25%) of the
total amount paid as salaries and wages to disabled
persons

• Those that improve or modify their physical facilities

additional deduction from their net taxable income,
equivalent to fifty percent (50%) of the direct
costs of the improvements or modifications.It is
individually-oriented
Anti-Sexual Harassment Act, 1995
• Types:
Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment
Manager demands sexual intimacy
Victim is the subordinate/applicant

Hostile Environment
unsolicited criticisms and actions
Victim is the target employee and other
employees who have witnessed or
heard about the harassment
Republic Act No. 6727
• "Wage Rationalization Act."
"Art. 99. Regional Minimum Wages. — x x x shall be those prescribed
by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards.“

"Art. 124. Standards/Criteria for Minimum Wage Fixing.

"(a) The demand for living wages;
"(b) Wage adjustment vis-a-vis the consumer price index;
"(c) The cost of living and changes or increases therein;
"(d) The needs of workers and their families;
"(e) The need to induce industries to invest in the countryside;
"(f) Improvements in standards of living;
"(g) The prevailing wage levels;
"(h) Fair return of the capital invested and capacity to pay of employers;
"(i) Effects on employment generation and family income; and
"(j) The equitable distribution of income and wealth along the imperatives of
economic and social development.
Con...

Aims to promote the objective appraisal of

job on the basis of work to be performed

It spells out the manner for determining the

rates of remuneration
 Magna Carta for Public Health
Workers

• There must be no discrimination against public

health worker

• Permits married couples who are both public

health workers to be employed in the same
community/municipality

• Provides additional benefits to public health

workers
 Assignment

1. Magna Carta of Women

2. RA 6728
3. Labor Code of the Philippine
Articles 130, 131, 135, 136 and 137