Republic Act No.

7610

June 17, 1992

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR STRONGER DETERRENCE AND SPECIAL PROTECTION AGAINST

CHILD ABUSE, EXPLOITATION AND DISCRIMINATION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
ARTICLE VIII
Working Children
Section 12. Employment of Children. Children below fifteen (15) years of age may be employed
except:
(1) When a child works directly under the sole responsibility of his parents or legal guardian
and where only members of the employer's family are employed: Provided, however, That
his employment neither endangers his life, safety and health and morals, nor impairs his
normal development: Provided, further, That the parent or legal guardian shall provide the
said minor child with the prescribed primary and/or secondary education; or
(2) When a child's employment or participation in public & entertainment or information
through cinema, theater, radio or television is essential: Provided, The employment contract
concluded by the child's parent or guardian, with the express agreement of the child
concerned, if possible, and the approval of the Department of Labor and Employment:
Provided, That the following requirements in all instances are strictly complied with:
(a) The employer shall ensure the protection, health, safety and morals of the child;
(b) the employer shall institute measures to prevent the child's exploitation or discrimination
taking into account the system and level of remuneration, and the duration and arrangement
of working time; and;
(c) The employer shall formulate and implement, subject to the approval and supervision of
competent authorities, a continuing program for training and skill acquisition of the child.
In the above exceptional cases where any such child may be employed, the employer shall first
secure, before engaging such child, a work permit from the Department of Labor and Employment
which shall ensure observance of the above requirement.
The Department of Labor Employment shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the
effective implementation of this Section.
Section 14. Prohibition on the Employment of Children in Certain Advertisements. No
person shall employ child models in all commercials or advertisements promoting alcoholic
beverages, intoxicating drinks, tobacco and its byproducts and violence.

TITLE THREE
PERSONS
CHAPTER 1

PROHIBITION ON DISCRIMINATION AGAINST DISABLED

Discrimination on Employment

SECTION 32. Discrimination on Employment

No entity, whether public or private,
shall discriminate against a qualified disabled person by reason of disability in regard to
job application procedures, the hiring, promotion, or discharge of employees, employee
compensation, job training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.
The following constitute acts of discrimination:
(a). Limiting, segregating or classifying a disabled job applicant in such a manner
that adversely affects his work opportunities;
(b). Using qualification standards, employment tests or other selection criteria
that screen out or tend to screen out a disabled person unless such standards, tests or
other selection criteria are shown to be jobrelated for the position on question and are
consistent with business necessity;
(c). Utilizing standards, criteria, or methods of administration that:
1). have the effect of discrimination on the basis of disability; or
2). perpetuate the discrimination of others who are subject to common administrative
control;
(d). Providing less compensation, such as salary, wage or other forms of
remuneration and fringe benefits, to a qualified disabled employee, by reason of his
disability, than the amount to which a non-disabled person performing the same work is
entitled;
(e). Favoring a non-disabled employee over a qualified disabled employee with
respect to promotion, training opportunities, study and scholarship grants, solely on
account of the latters disability;
(f). Re-assigning or transferring a disabled employee to a job or position he
cannot perform by reason of his disability;
(g). Dismissing or terminating the services of a disabled employee by reason of
his disability unless the employer can prove that he impairs the satisfactory
performance of the work involve to the prejudice of the business entities; Provided,
however, That the employer first sought provide reasonable accommodations for
disabled persons;
(h). Failing to select or administer in the effective manner employment tests
which accurately reflect the skills, aptitude or other factor of the disabled applicant or
employee that such test purports to measure, rather than the impaired sensory, manual
or speaking skills of such applicant or employee, if any; and
(i). Excluding disabled persons from membership in labor unions or similar
organization.
SECTION 33. Employment Entrance Examination
Upon an offer of employment, a
disabled applicant may be subjected to medical examination, on the following
occasions:
(a). all entering employees are subjected to such an examination regardless of
disability;
(b). information obtained during the medical condition or history of the applicant
is collected and maintained on separate forms and in separate medical files and is
treated as a confidential medical record, Provided, however, That:

1). supervisors and managers may be informed regarding necessary

restrictions on the work or duties of the employees and necessary
accommodations;
2). first aid and safety personnel my be informed, when appropriate, if the
disability might require emergency treatment;
3). government officials investigating compliance with this Act shall be
provided relevant information on request; and
4). the results of such examination are used only accordance with this Act.

RA. 8791, General Banking Laws of 2000

Section 55. Prohibited Transactions.
55.4. Consistent with the provisions of Republic Act No. 1405, otherwise known as the Banks
Secrecy Law, no bank shall employ casual or non regular personnel or too lengthy probationary
personnel in the conduct of its business involving bank deposits.

Anti-Trafficking in Persons Acts of 2003

Section 3. Definition of Terms. - As used in this Act:
(a) Trafficking in Persons - refers to the recruitment, transportation, transfer or harboring, or
receipt of persons with or without the victim's consent or knowledge, within or across national
borders by means of threat or use of force, or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud,
deception, abuse of power or of position, taking advantage of the vulnerability of the person,
or, the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having
control over another person for the purpose of exploitation which includes at a minimum, the
exploitation or the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or
services, slavery, servitude or the removal or sale of organs.
(d) Forced Labor and Slavery - refer to the extraction of work or services from any person by
means of enticement, violence, intimidation or threat, use of force or coercion, including
deprivation of freedom, abuse of authority or moral ascendancy, debt-bondage or deception.
(g) Debt Bondage - refers to the pledging by the debtor of his/her personal services or labor
or those of a person under his/her control as security or payment for a debt, when the length
and nature of services is not clearly defined or when the value of the services as reasonably
assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt.
Section 4. Acts of Trafficking in Persons. - It shall be unlawful for any person, natural or juridical, to
commit any of the following acts:
(a) To recruit, transport, transfer; harbor, provide, or receive a person by any means,
including those done under the pretext of domestic or overseas employment or training or
apprenticeship, for the purpose of prostitution, pornography, sexual exploitation, forced labor,
slavery, involuntary servitude or debt bondage;

(b) To introduce or match for money, profit, or material, economic or other consideration, any
person or, as provided for under Republic Act No. 6955, any Filipino woman to a foreign
national, for marriage for the purpose of acquiring, buying, offering, selling or trading him/her
to engage in prostitution, pornography, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, involuntary
servitude or debt bondage;
(c) To offer or contract marriage, real or simulated, for the purpose of acquiring, buying,
offering, selling, or trading them to engage in prostitution, pornography, sexual exploitation,
forced labor or slavery, involuntary servitude or debt bondage;
(f) To adopt or facilitate the adoption of persons for the purpose of prostitution, pornography,
sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, involuntary servitude or debt bondage;

Section 5. Acts that Promote Trafficking in Persons. - The following acts which promote or facilitate
trafficking in persons, shall be unlawful:
(g) To knowingly benefit from, financial or otherwise, or make use of, the labor or services of
a person held to a condition of involuntary servitude, forced labor, or slavery.

Section 6. Qualified Trafficking in Persons. - The following are considered as qualified trafficking:
(b) When the adoption is effected through Republic Act No. 8043, otherwise known as the
"Inter-Country Adoption Act of 1995" and said adoption is for the purpose of prostitution,
pornography, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, involuntary servitude or debt
bondage;

Republic Act No. 8504

February 13, 1998

AN ACT PROMULGATING POLICIES AND PRESCRIBING MEASURES FOR THE PREVENTION

AND CONTROL OF HIV/AIDS IN THE PHILIPPINES
ARTICLE VII
DISCRIMINATORY ACTS AND POLICIES
Sec. 35. Discrimination in the workplace. Discrimination in any form from pre-employment to
post-employment, including hiring, promotion or assignment, based on the actual, perceived or
suspected HIV status of an individual is prohibited. Termination from work on the sole basis of actual,
perceived or suspected HIV status is deemed unlawful.

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10354

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A NATIONAL POLICY ON RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD AND

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Section 23. Prohibited Acts. The following acts are prohibited:
(c) Any employer who shall suggest, require, unduly influence or cause any applicant for
employment or an employee to submit himself/herself to sterilization, use any modern
methods of family planning, or not use such methods as a condition for employment,
continued employment, promotion or the provision of employment benefits. Further,
pregnancy or the number of children shall not be a ground for non-hiring or termination from
employment;

New Civil Code:

SECTION 2
Contract of Labor
Article 1703. No contract which practically amounts to involuntary servitude, under any guise
whatsoever, shall be valid.

RPC
Section Three. - Slavery and Servitude
Article 272. Slavery. - The penalty of prision mayor and a fine of not exceeding 10,000 pesos shall
be imposed upon anyone who shall purchase, sell, kidnap or detain a human being for the purpose
of enslaving him.
If the crime be committed for the purpose of assigning the offended party to some immoral traffic, the
penalty shall be imposed in its maximum period.
Article 273. Exploitation of child labor. - The penalty of prision correccional in its minimum and
medium periods and a fine not exceeding 500 pesos shall be imposed upon anyone who, under the
pretext of reimbursing himself of a debt incurred by an ascendant, guardian or person entrusted with
the custody of a minor, shall, against the latter's will, retain him in his service.
Article 274. Services rendered under compulsion in payment of debt. - The penalty of arresto
mayor in its maximum period to prision correccional in its minimum period shall be imposed upon
any person who, in order to require or enforce the payment of a debt, shall compel the debtor to
work for him, against his will, as household servant or farm laborer.
Article 278. Exploitation of minors. - The penalty of prision correccional in its minimum and medium
periods and a fine not exceeding 500 pesos shall be imposed upon:
1. Any person who shall cause any boy or girl under sixteen years of age to perform any
dangerous feat of balancing, physical strength, or contortion.

2. Any person who, being an acrobat, gymnast, rope-walker, diver, wild-animal tamer or
circus manager or engaged in a similar calling, shall employ in exhibitions of these kinds
children under sixteen years of age who are not his children or descendants.
3. Any person engaged in any of the callings enumerated in the next paragraph preceding
who shall employ any descendant of his under twelve years of age in such dangerous
exhibitions.
4. Any ascendant, guardian, teacher or person entrusted in any capacity with the care of a
child under sixteen years of age, who shall deliver such child gratuitously to any person
following any of the callings enumerated in paragraph 2 hereof, or to any habitual vagrant or
beggar.
If the delivery shall have been made in consideration of any price, compensation, or promise,
the penalty shall in every case be imposed in its maximum period.
In either case, the guardian or curator convicted shall also be removed from office as
guardian or curator; and in the case of the parents of the child, they may be deprived,
temporarily or perpetually, in the discretion of the court, of their parental authority.
5. Any person who shall induce any child under sixteen years of age to abandon the home of
its ascendants, guardians, curators, or teachers to follow any person engaged in any of the
callings mentioned in paragraph 2 hereof, or to accompany any habitual vagrant or beggar.

Sec. 33. Personnel Required. - Except as otherwise provided in this Act, every
electric plant, industrial plant or factory, commercial establishment, institutional
building, watercraft, electric locomotive or in any other installation where persons
and properties are exposed to electrical hazards shall not have less than the
following complement of professional electrical engineer, registered electrical
engineer, and registered electrical engineer, and registered master electricians:
(b) Industrial plants or factories, commercial establishments, or institutional
buildings having a connected Kva load of any size and employing voltages of
any standard rating - one (1) professional electrical engineer or one (1)
registered electrical engineer. However, for connected loads up to five
hundred kilovolt-amperes (500 Kva) and employing voltages up

Section 34. Personnel Required in Mechanical Plant. Every mechanical work project or plant in
operation shall have not less than the following complement of resident licensed professional
mechanical engineer, mechanical engineer or certified plant mechanic:
(c) Over 2000 kw: one (1) professional mechanical engineer: Provided, That every
mechanical work, project or plant in this category operating in more than one shift every
twenty-four (24) hours shall have, in addition to the minimum personnel herein required at
least one (1) professional mechanical engineer in-charge of each and every additional shift.