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	<title>Trade Union Congress of the Philippines &#187; Laws and Court decisions</title>
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		<title>Court orders reinstatement of 1,197 dismissed employees</title>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2012/06/court-orders-reinstatement-of-1197-dismissed-employees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manila, Philippines &#8211; The Manila regional trial court has declared unlawful the mass layoff of 1,197 employees of the Manila City Hall and ordered their reinstatement and payment of their back wages. In a 13-page decision dated June 20, Judge Daniel Villanueva directed Heidi Rosero, officer-in-charge of the city’s budget office, and acting city treasurer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voluntary act</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there is voluntary resignation and waiver or quitclaim, there can be no illegal dismissal. This is illustrated in this case of Tessie. Tessie was a flight attendant of a Mideast airline company (Saudia) having been hired on May 13, 1986. During the course of her employment she was assigned to work at the Manila [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Similarly situated</title>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2011/12/similarly-situated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the punishment for employees who joined an illegal strike? This is answered in this case of the 121 employees of a multipurpose livelihood cooperative and a motor corporation (MMLC and SMC) who joined a labor union (KMLMS). Of these employees 14 became union officers while 107 were union members. At the time they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court affirms govt right to search work computers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industrial Relations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE government may search an employee’s office computer without violating his constitutional right to privacy, even if it does so without a warrant, the Supreme Court ruled last month. In a decision dated Oct. 18, the Court denied the appeal of Briccio Pollo, a former supervising personnel specialist at the Civil Service Commission who was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No basis</title>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2011/11/no-basis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industrial Relations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In illegal dismissal cases, it must be shown that there was in fact a dismissal. This is the argument raised by Vic. Vic was the owner of a moviehouse. One of his employees was Dario who had been hired as electrician/air-conditioner operator sometime in January 1983 receiving below the minimum wage salary of only P97 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Department Order No. 107-10, Series of 2010, Guidelines on the single entry approach prescribing a 30-day mandatory conciliation-mediation services for all labor and employment cases</title>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2010/10/department-order-no-107-10-series-of-2010-guidelines-on-the-single-entry-approach-prescribing-a-30-day-mandatory-conciliation-mediation-services-for-all-labor-and-employment-cases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industrial Relations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download the text in PDF form]]></description>
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		<title>Final even if erroneous</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another case illustrating that a final decision can no longer be modified. This is the case of Lito who was hired as technical salesman by a company engaged in the distribution of various chemicals from foreign suppliers (MTI). After more than six years of employment, MTI terminated Lito’s services on July 15, 1997. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republic Act No. 6715 March 2, 1989</title>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2010/05/republic-act-no-6715-march-2-1989/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 01:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ra06715, download PDF version]]></description>
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		<title>Hostile and unreasonable</title>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2010/04/hostile-and-unreasonable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2010/04/hostile-and-unreasonable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another case of resignation amounting to constructive dismissal. The test applied here is whether a reasonable person in the employee’s position would have felt compelled to give up his position under the circumstances. This is the case of Magno. Magno was the manager of a commercial bank (PVB) in Dumaguete City where he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Probability, not certainty</title>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2010/03/probability-not-certainty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another case regarding compensability of permanent and total disability due to illness that is not listed as occupational disease but has been considered work related. This is the case of Lino. On June 4, 2002 Lino was hired as Chief Engineer of a vessel owned by a Panama shipping company (WMP) through it [...]]]></description>
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