Browse Philippine labor law guides covering the Labor Code, employee rights, employer duties, labor standards, termination, and dispute resolution.
AWOL is not a Labor Code ground for dismissal by itself. Learn what absence without official leave actually means, when it legally becomes abandonment of work, and what due process employers must still follow before a valid AWOL dismissal.
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.
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.
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.
Last materially reviewed: August 16, 2026 Most workplace disputes involve two parties. Labor-only contracting involves three — a principal, a contractor, and the workers — and the whole question is which of the two companies is actually the employer, and who pays when something goes wrong. That makes it a different problem from endo. Endo…
Last materially reviewed: August 16, 2026 Basic salary looks like the simplest number on a payslip. It is actually the most consequential one, because almost nothing else on the payslip is computed independently — thirteenth-month pay, separation pay, retirement pay, overtime, night differential and premium pay are all derived from it. It is also the…
Project-Based Employment Philippines 2026 guide: Article 295 rules, valid project contracts, employee rights, DOLE reporting, project completion, and when repeated rehiring can make a worker regular.
Last materially reviewed: August 15, 2026 Most people meet a Labor Arbiter at the point where conciliation has already failed. The Single Entry Approach did not produce a settlement, a complaint has been filed with a Regional Arbitration Branch of the National Labor Relations Commission, and the case is now with an officer who will…