Guides for Philippine HR practitioners: due process documentation, notices to explain, company policies, employee disputes and DOLE inspections.
A clause-by-clause guide to the release, waiver and quitclaim Filipino workers are asked to sign at separation — what each part does, which clauses carry the least weight, and how the forum you sign in changes how final it is.
Leave without pay is not in the Labor Code. Where its rules come from, how it cuts your 13th-month pay, and why it does not reset your leave eligibility.
Closure is an authorized cause under Article 298. When separation pay is owed, when serious business losses excuse it, and what notice the employer must serve.
Understand the 7 working-day paternity leave benefit under RA 8187: eligibility, full pay, documents, deadlines, miscarriage coverage, and what to do if leave is denied.
Understand 105-day maternity leave in the Philippines, SSS eligibility, full pay, salary differential, documents, calculation and next steps.
Compare resignation, redundancy, retrenchment and just-cause termination in the Philippines — who initiates each, notice required, and separation pay.
Just cause termination procedure Philippines 2026: follow the twin-notice rule from Notice to Explain and the 5-day response period through evaluation, hearing when required, and the final written decision.
Learn the difference between gross and habitual neglect, the evidence needed for dismissal, exceptions, warnings and due process under Philippine labor law.
Learn when willful disobedience can justify dismissal under Article 297, what employers must prove, what evidence matters, and how due process works.
Learn when serious misconduct can justify dismissal under Article 297 of the Philippine Labor Code, what employers must prove, what evidence matters, and how due process works.