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Section 12. The State shall promote the preferential use of Filipino labor, domestic
materials and locally produced goods, and adopt measures that help make them
competitive.
Section 1. The Congress shall give highest priority to the enactment of measures
that protect and enhance the right of all the people to human dignity, reduce
social, economic, and political inequalities, and remove cultural inequities by
equitably diffusing wealth and political power for the common good.
To this end, the State shall regulate the acquisition, ownership, use, and
disposition of property and its increments.
Section 2. The promotion of social justice shall include the commitment to create
economic opportunities based on freedom of initiative and self-reliance.
LABOR
Section 3. The State shall afford full protection to labor, local and overseas,
organized and unorganized, and promote full employment and equality of
employment opportunities for all.
It shall guarantee the rights of all workers to self-organization, collective
bargaining and negotiations, and peaceful concerted activities, including the right
to strike in accordance with law. They shall be entitled to security of tenure,
humane conditions of work, and a living wage. They shall also participate in policy
and decision-making processes affecting their rights and benefits as may be
provided by law.
The State shall promote the principle of shared responsibility between workers
and employers and the preferential use of voluntary modes in settling disputes,
including conciliation, and shall enforce their mutual compliance therewith to
foster industrial peace.
The State shall regulate the relations between workers and employers,
recognizing the right of labor to its just share in the fruits of production and the
right of enterprises to reasonable returns to investments, and to expansion and
growth.
Section 13. The State shall establish a special agency for disabled person for their
rehabilitation, self-development, and self-reliance, and their integration into the
mainstream of society.
WOMEN
Section 14. The State shall protect working women by providing safe and healthful
working conditions, taking into account their maternal functions, and such
facilities and opportunities that will enhance their welfare and enable them to
realize their full potential in the service of the nation.
ARTICLE XVI GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 8. The State shall, from time to time, review to increase the pensions and
other benefits due to retirees of both the government and the private sectors.
Related Laws
1. Civil Code
Art. 19. Every person must, in the exercise of his rights and in the performance of
his duties, act with justice, give everyone his due, and observe honesty and good
faith.
Art. 1700. The relations between capital and labor are not merely contractual.
They are so impressed with public interest that labor contracts must yield to the
common good.
Therefore, such contracts are subject to the special laws on labor unions,
collective bargaining, strikes and lockouts, closed shop, wages, working
conditions, hours of labor and similar subjects.
Art. 1701. Neither capital nor labor shall act oppressively against the other, or
impair the interest or convenience of the public.
Art. 1702. In case of doubt, all labor legislation and all labor contracts shall be
construed in favor of the safety and decent living for the laborer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Art. 291. Revealing secrets with abuse of office. The penalty of arresto mayor
and a fine not exceeding 500 pesos shall be imposed upon any manager,
employee, or servant who, in such capacity, shall learn the secrets of his principal
or master and shall reveal such secrets.
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Basis
Employer-employee relationship
Employee
Any person who performs services for an employer in which either or both mental
and physical efforts are used and who receives compensation for such services,
where there is employer-employee relationship
Employer
One for whom employees work and who pays their wages or salaries
Any person natural or juridical, domestic or foreign who carries on in the
Philippines any trade, business, industry, undertaking or activity of any kind and
uses the services of another person who is under his order as regards the
employment (RA 1161, Sec 8 par c)
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Article
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Labor
Relations
Article
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Limits:
Employer
"Employer" includes any person acting
directly or indirectly in the interest of an
employer in relation to an employee and
shall include the government and all its
branches, subdivisions and
instrumentalities, all government-owned
or controlled corporations and
institutions, as well as non-profit private
institutions, or organizations.
any person, natural or judicial,
employing the services of the employee
(par F)
Employee
"Employee" includes any individual
employed by an employer.
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To protect every citizen desiring to work locally or overseas by securing for him the best
possible terms and conditions of employment;
3.
To facilitate a free choice of available employment by persons seeking work in conformity with
the national interest;
4.
To facilitate and regulate the movement of workers in conformity with the national interest;
5.
6.
To strengthen the network of public employment offices and rationalize the participation of the
private sector in the recruitment and placement of workers, locally and overseas, to serve
national development objectives;
7.
To insure careful selection of Filipino workers for overseas employment in order to protect the
good name of the Philippines abroad.
Authority
a document issued by the Department of
Labor authorizing a person or association to
engage in recruitment and placement
activities as a private recruitment entity.
Private recruitment
entity
None
Both local and abroad
Document called authority
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