Article 1Labor and Agrarian Laws and Social Legislation, p. 1

LABOR AND AGRARIAN

LAWS AND

SOCIAL LEGISLATION

Special Laws and

Implementing Rules

And Regulations

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Labor Laws Related to Pre-employment

3

RA No 8042 | Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos

Act of 1995

3

I. Deployment

4

II. Illegal Recruitment

4

III. Services

6

IV. Government Agencies

8

V. The Legal Assistant for Migrant Workers Affairs

9

VI. Country-Team Approach

10

VIII. Professional and Other Highly-Skilled

Filipinos Abroad

10

IX. Miscellaneous Provisions

10

RA No 8759 | Public Employment Service Office Act

of 1999

14

RA No 10869 | JobStart Philippines Act

15

RA No 10911 | Anti-Age Discrimination in

Employment Act

18

Labor Laws Related to Human Resources Development

20

RA No 7796 | TESDA Act of 1994

20

RA No 7277 | Magna Carta for Persons with Disability

26

TITLE ONE General Provisions

26

CHAPTER 1 Basic Principle

26

TITLE TWO Rights and Privileges of Disabled

Persons

27

CHAPTER 1 Employment

27

CHAPTER 2 Education

28

CHAPTER 3 Health

28

CHAPTER 4 Auxiliary Social Services

29

CHAPTER 5 Telecommunications

29

CHAPTER 6 Accessibility

29

CHAPTER 7 Political and Civil Rights

29

CHAPTER 8 Other Privileges and Incentives

29

TITLE THREE Prohibition on Discrimination

Against Disabled Persons

30

CHAPTER 1 Discrimination on Employment

30

CHAPTER 2 Discrimination on Transportation

31

CHAPTER 3 Discrimination on the Use of

Public Accommodations and Services

31

TITLE FOUR Prohibitions on Verbal, Non-verbal

Ridicule and Vilification Against Persons with

Disability

32

CHAPTER 1 Deliverance from Public Ridicule

32

CHAPTER 2 Deliverance from Vilification

32

TITLE FIVE Final Provisions

32

RA No 10771 | Philippine Green Jobs Act of 2016

34

Labor Laws Related to Conditions of Employment

36

RA No 8187 | Paternity Leave Act of 1996

36

PD No 851 | 13th-Month Pay Act

36

RA No 9710 | Magna Carta of Women

38

CHAPTER II DEFINITION OF TERMS

39

CHAPTER III DUTIES RELATED TO THE HUMAN

RIGHTS OF WOMEN

40

CHAPTER IV RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT

40

CHAPTER V RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT OF

MARGINALIZED SECTORS

43

CHAPTER VI INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS

45

RA No 8972 | Solo Parents’ Welfare Act of 2000

47

RA No 7877 | Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995

48

RA No 7160 | Special Protection of Children Against

Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act

49

ARTICLE I Title, Policy, Principles and Definitions

of Terms

49

ARTICLE II Program on Child Abuse, Exploitation

and Discrimination

50

ARTICLE III Child Prostitution and Other Sexual

Abuse

50

ARTICLE IV Child Trafficking

50

ARTICLE V Obscene Publications and Indecent

Shows

51

ARTICLE VI Other Acts of Abuse

51

ARTICLE VII Sanctions for Establishments or

Enterprises

51

ARTICLE VIII Working Children

51

ARTICLE IX Children of Indigenous Cultural

Communities

53

ARTICLE X Children in Situations of Armed

Conflict

53

ARTICLE XI Remedial Procedures

54

ARTICLE XII Common Penal Provisions

55

ARTICLE XIII Final Provisions

55

RA No 10706 | Seafarers Protection Act

55

Labor Laws Related to Health, Safety and Social

Welfare Benefits

56

RA No 8282 | Social Security Act of 1997

56

RA No 8291 | GSIS Act of 1997

66

A. DEFINITIONS

66

B. MEMBERSHIP IN THE GSIS

67

C. SOURCES OF FUNDS

67

D. BENEFITS

68

SEPARATION BENEFITS

68

RETIREMENT BENEFITS

68

PERMANENT DISABILITY BENEFITS

69

TEMPORARY DISABILITY BENEFITS

69

SURVIVORSHIP BENEFITS

69

FUNERAL BENEFITS

70

LIFE INSURANCE BENEFITS

70

E. ADJUDICATION OF CLAIMS AND DISPUTES 70

F. FUNDS OF THE GSIS

71

G. ADMINISTRATION

72

H. GENERAL PROVISION

74

I. PENAL PROVISIONS

74

RA No 7875 | National Health Insurance Act of 2013 75

ARTICLE I Guiding Principles

75

ARTICLE II Definitions of Terms

76

© Compiled by Rehne Gibb N. Larena | JD-2 | University of San Carlos