Increasingly since the 1990s, however, more and more of the Filipino labor migrants deployed from the country for overseas jobs were women in both unskilled and semi-skilled occupations. Confronted with high-profile cases of abuse and discrimination especially and particularly of its women migrants, ...
beknownasthe"LaborCodeofthePhilippines".Art.2.Dateofeffectivity.ThisCodeshalltakeeffectsix(6)monthsafteritspromulgation.Art.3.Declarationofbasicpolicy.TheStateshallaffordprotectiontolabor,promotefullemployment,ensureequalworkopportunitiesregardlessofsex,raceorcreedandregulatetherelationsbetweenworkersandemployers.The...
In most cases, salary reductions must be understood and agreed upon by employees. Occasionally, pay cuts coincide with position adjustments. Employers bear the responsibility of demonstrating the fairness and reasonableness of such changes. Companies are required to follow “democratic procedures”, such...
In many cases, however, there are interactions between complexity and disaggregation, which we will explore in this chapter as well. Let us illustrate this by three examples. (i) The introduction of involuntary unemployment confronts us with characteristically different unemployment rates for different ...
6938 (Cooperative Code of the Philippines) and other laws. dd. Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) – refers to the cost of living allowance prescribed by the Board for covered private sector workers and employees in the National Capital Region. ee. Wage Distortion –refers to a situation where ...
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We limited the IV taking 1 to cases where mothers reported a consistent wage increase across both periods (A) to (B) and (B) to (C) to ensure the robustness of the indicator.Footnote13Since the IV partly relies on perceived trends (especially for non-working mothers), narrowing the defin...
transitioning from part-time to full-time caregiving roles qualifies as a temporary, one-time occurrence under the H-2B visa program. This decision highlights the importance of robust medical documentation, sets critical precedent for future cases, and underscores the necessity of strategic legal ...
Often employers wish to reduce wage costs, although it may be possible, in some cases, to raise profits by paying workers more, so that they work harder – an effort bargain based on the so-called ‘efficiency wage’. Show moreView chapter Reference work 2009, International Encyclopedia of ...
For instance, photos can prove the working time someone has gone through in child labor cases to prove one’s age (ST from the DSI, personal communication, 20 June 2019). Moreover, he added that “[through] the line application [it] is hard to get personal contact because of the big ...