A legally compliant resignation letter template built around the Labor Code’s 30-day notice rule, with guidance on when you can resign immediately instead and what happens if you skip the notice period.
Field personnel are excluded from overtime pay, holiday pay and Service Incentive Leave under Article 82 of the Labor Code — but only if the employer genuinely cannot verify their hours. Learn the Supreme Court’s two-part test, common misclassification traps, and what employees and employers should do next.
Philippine law requires a 60-minute meal break that is generally unpaid, but only if the employee is completely free from duty. Learn the legal test, the narrow 20-minute shortening exception, and the Supreme Court cases on interrupted or on-call breaks.
Last materially reviewed: August 24, 2026 Every employee covered by the SSS or the GSIS is automatically a Pag-IBIG member, and both the employee and the employer must contribute every month. Since February 2024 the salary base used in the computation has been capped at ₱10,000, which puts the standard maximum at ₱200 from the…
An employer generally does not need an employee’s consent to transfer or reassign them — but the move must pass a two-part legal test: no demotion or diminution of pay and benefits, and no unreasonableness, prejudice, or bad faith. This guide covers the Supreme Court test, key cases from 1989 to 2021, and what employees and employers should do when a transfer is disputed.
Floating status lets a security agency keep an employee on the books without pay while waiting for a new client assignment — but only for a maximum of six months. This guide covers the Article 301 legal basis, the Supreme Court’s six-month rule and burden of proof, red flags for abuse, and what happens once floating status ripens into constructive dismissal.
Fixed-Term Employment Philippines 2026: learn when a fixed-term contract is valid, the Brent School test, repeated-renewal risks, employee rights, lawful expiration, and when termination may become illegal dismissal.
Yes. A Philippine employer may generally require, restrict, or ban the use of ChatGPT and similar generative AI tools at work, and may discipline an employee who violates that policy, because setting workplace tools and rules is part of management prerogative. This power is not absolute: the policy must be lawful, reasonable, made known to…
Yes — but only within the same legal framework that governs a decision made by a human manager. Philippine law does not treat AI scoring, screening, or termination-flagging tools as a separate legal category. If an algorithm’s output leads to hiring rejection or dismissal, the employer must still show a valid just or authorized cause…
Article 295 explains when an employee is considered regular in the Philippines, including the necessary-or-desirable test, the one-year casual-employment rule, probationary employment, project work, evidence, and remedies.