Tutorial for Labor 1 and 2

It turns out that opening an office and going into practice with my fiancee are not activities that can be paired with maintaining this blog. And now with an added tutorial gig, I don’t think I can promise new blog posts anytime soon. What I can promise though is that we’ll be having comprehensive discussions

Labor Law Bar Exam Questions Topics (2009-2019)

As promised, here is my compilation of the topics asked under Labor Law during the 2009-2019 Bar Exams. Do what you must with this data, but I advise you to focus on studying the most often-asked questions first. If you find yourself out of time, this list is useful in giving you confidence that you

Labor Law Bar Exam Reviewer

Done with labor reviewer. Here’s the link. NOTE: The document was last edited 12:26 PM, January 7. Good Luck!!! Will try to make Poli next time.

Just and Authorized Causes

This first question is an objective one. It will not be asked in the 2022 bar exams because the Omnibus Guidelines provide that questions will be about a “specific legal problem.” Anyway, based on the answer above, we’re already familiar with just and authorized causes. But we’ll talk about the entire main topic where just

Labor Standards Part II (Wages)

Last time, we went over Hours of Work, Rest Periods, and Service Charge. It’s now time to finish Labor Standards starting with Wages. Wages 1. Definition, components, and exclusions Let’s start with the definition of wage. Wage encompasses every remuneration or earnings, capable of being expressed in terms of money, payable by an employer to

Labor Standards Part I (Conditions of Employment: Hours of Work, Rest Periods, Service Charge)

Now that we got Recruit and Placement and Christmas out of the way, it’s time to reset and go to Labor Standards. I think it’s better to first tackle Employer-Employee relationship when we get to the gist of labor law, but that’s not how the syllabus is sequenced. Let’s see if following the syllabus works.

Recruitment and Placement Part II (Illegal Recruitment, etc.)

We finished off prohibited practices last time. But we’ll have to revisit it as it’s connected with illegal recruitment. To recap, prohibited practices are under Art. 34 of the Labor Code. The Mnemonic device suggested by Usec JBJ is SOBIGGAWIFE. SOBIGGAWIFE (Art. 34)•Substituting or altering contracts approved and verified by DOLE/POEA•Obstructing the Labor Secretary’s inspection•Becoming

Recruitment and Placement Part I (Definition of recruitment and placement + Regulation of recruitment and placement activities)

Undersecretary JBJ says these are the important Labor Code provisions in relation to Recruitment and Placement:13– Definitions34– Prohibited Practices38– Illegal Recruitment40– Employment Permit of Non-resident Aliens While the second most important are:18– Ban on Direct-Hiring27– Citizenship Requirement37– Visitorial Power41– Prohibition Against Transfer of Employment42– Submission of List But we’ll get to these later. Let’s go

Fundamental Principles in Labor Law

Let’s start with the lighter side of the syllabus, the fundamental principles. (Edit September 2022: If you want to learn more, I have a tutorial program ongoing. It will be of great help in expanding my passion project. You can sign up at https://sophia.milesfajardo.com/1st-register/?fbclid=IwAR1hmuoneQgVNTOcA0B3ZgO1gYjZeDsQoH6J-kvfKPyKmiNODMyxMIBC-9A) But before we do that, let’s first know what labor is.