BUKIDNON STATE UNIVERSITY

City of Malaybalay
College of Community Education and Industrial Technology
COURSE SYLLABUS IN Labor Law
(Labor and Civil Service Law)
I.

Course Description:
This course will explore the basic concepts in Philippine Labor Law and the Civil Service
Law, its application and related laws.

II.

Credit Units:

3 units

III.

Credit Hours:

54 hours

IV.

Course Objectives:
At the end of the semester the students should be able to:
1. D
2. D
3. D
4.

V.

Course Contents
TOPIC

Recruitment and Placement

1. Recruitment of Local and Migrant Workers
a. Definition
b. Illegal Recruitment

HOURS
3 hours

2. Regulation and Enforcement

B

Labor Standards
1. Hours of Work
a. Normal Hours of Work
b. Compressed Work Week
c. Work Interruptions
d. Meal Breaks
e. Idle times
f. Overtime Work
g. Night Work

1 hour

2. Wages
a. Coverage and Exclusions
b. Wages vs Salaries
c. Wage Distortion
d. Allowable Deduction without employees consent

1 hours

3. Rest Days and Holidays

a. Right to weekly rest day and employee preference
b. Right to holiday pay
c. Coverage of and exclusion from holiday pay

1 hour

4. Leaves
a. Service Incentive Leave Pay
b. Maternity Leave
c. Paternity Leave
d. Parental Leave
e. Leaves under RA 9262

2 hours

5. Service Charges
a. Coverage and Exclusion
b. Distribution and Integration

1 hour

6. Thirteenth Month Pay

a. Coverage and Exclusion
b. Nature

1 hour

7. Women Workers

1 hour

8. Minor Workers

1 hour

9. Employment of Househelpers

1 hour

10. Employment of Homeworkers

1 hour

11. Apprentices, Leaners and Handicapped Workers

2 hours

Termination of Employment
1. Employer-Employee Relationship

1.5 hours

a.
b.
c.
d.

Four-fold test
Probationary employment
Kinds of employment
Job contracting and Labor-only contracting

2. Termination of Employment
a. Illegal Dismissal
b. Substantive Causes
Just Causes

7.5 hours

Authorized Causes
c. Procedural due Process
3. Reliefs for illegal dismissal

1 hour

Management Prerogatives
1. Discipline
2. Transfer of employees
3. Productivity Standards
4. Grant of Bonus
5. Change of Working Hours
6. Marital Discrimination
7. Post-employment ban
8. Limitation in the exercise of management prerogatives

3 hours

Social Legislation
1. SSS Law
2. GSIS Law
3. Limited Portability Law

3 hours

Labor Relations
1. Right to Self-organization
a. Who may unionize
b. Bargaining Unit

10.5 hours
(3 hours)

2. Right to Collective Bargaining

a. Duty to bargain
b. Mandatory provisions of the CBA
c. ULP in Collective Bargaining

(4 hours)

3. Right to Peaceful Concerted

(3 hours)

a. Strikes and lock-outs

4. Illegal Strikes
G

Civil Service Law

1. Republic Act 2260
2. Presidential Decree 807
3. Republic Act 6656

(1.5 hours)
12 hours