The Supreme Court of the Philippines, on 05 November 2024, promulgated the Rule on Family Mediation (A.M. No. 24-02-06-SC), aiming to provide families with a more amicable alternative to resolve dispu...
Moving towards accountability and transparency
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued SEC Memorandum Circular No. 18 Series of 2024 which requires public interest entities to disclose the fees paid or payable to their external auditor...
Exception to the doctrine of res judicata: Denial of due process
If the NLRC has rendered a judgment on the issue of employer-employee relationship and such judgment has become final, should the Court of Appeals in a separate case merely yield to the NLRC’s findi...
Illegal recruitment and estafa: one may be acquitted of illegal recruitment, but may still be liable for estafa
The Supreme Court in People of the Philippines vs. Sonia Valle, G.R. No. 235010, 07 August 2024 held that crimes of illegal recruitment and estafa are two different crimes. A conviction for one does n...
Pregnancy out of wedlock: Is it immoral? Is it a valid ground for suspension from work
The Supreme Court in Bohol Wisdom School vs. Mabao, G.R. No. 252124, 23 July 2024, held that premarital sexual relations between two single persons resulting in pregnancy out of wedlock cannot be cons...
Proof of employment relationship: who has the burden?
In a complaint for illegal dismissal filed before the Labor Arbiter, who has the burden to prove the existence of an employer-employee relationship? The Supreme Court, in Gaspar vs. M.I.Y. Real Estate...
SEC E-FILING AND OTHER ISSUANCES
To promote further transparency, the SEC issued Memorandum Circular No. 1, Series of 2021, providing for the guidelines on the......
EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS: REGULAR, PROBATIONARY OR PROJECT
A regular employment is an arrangement where the employee has been engaged to perform work which is usually......
MERGERS & CONSOLIDATION
The law allows the reorganization of two or more corporations to either merge into a single corporation which shall be one of the constituent corporations, or consolidate into a single new corporation...
CAN YOU RUN A BUSINESS WITHOUT HIRING AN EMPLOYEE?
As its dictionary meaning goes, to hire is to employ, to engage, to appoint, to enlist, to sign up or to secure the services of someone. Hiring refers to the process of engaging somebody for his servi...