TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 13 & 14, 2025 * 1:30PM TO 4:45PM VIA ZOOM
This three-session labor law webinar for private schools is to address the clamour of many educational institutions and to solve people issues and challenges in a school setting.
The program will cover a thorough and comprehensive discussions on the two special laws governing school personnel that are NEVER really taught extensively in law schools — Education Law and the Labor Laws for Academic and Non-Academic Personnel.
We will provide you with valuable lessons, practical advice, best practices, court decisions and examples to help you in your school personnel management and administration.
The growth or survival of your school will depend upon how you address the challenges of people administration. Attend and empower your school by learning the right answers!
He is the Executive Director and Spokesperson of the Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations (COCOPEA), the largest confederation of private schools in the Philippines, composed of over 3,000 member institutions. His expertise and experience in the field of education includes being Vice Dean, Chairman of the Legal Management Department, PAASCU Accreditor, Bar Lecturer and Professor of Law at the School of Law and Graduate School of Business at San Beda College Alabang (SBCA), where he teaches Labor Standards and Labor Relations. He is the HR Director at SBCA handling over 1000 personnel, CBA Negotiator and concurrently Chairman of the Board of Directors of the SBCA Credit Cooperative. He is a Managing Partner of Romulo Jacome & Baculio Attorneys at Law, a full-service law firm specializing in litigation, business, labor and education law.
School owners
Board of trustees
School administrators
School principals
School supervisors
School HR in-charge
Teachers & employees
Lawyers and legal practitioners
School unions & cooperatives
Parents
Other stakeholders in the education sector
Anyone interested in the topic.
I. CLASSIFICATION OF SCHOOL PERSONNEL
A. Academic Personnel
1. Teaching
2. Non-Teaching
B. Non-Academic Personnel
Employment Groupings Based on Nature of Work/ Duties Functions of Non-Academic Personnel
- Administrators/ Managerial Employees
- Supervisory Employees
- Rank-and-File Employees
II. SIGNIFICANCE OF DISTINCTION/ CLASSIFICATION
III. PRINCIPAL LAW TO GOVERN/ CONFLICT OF LAW RULES
Two (2) Sets of Laws to Govern School Personnel
A. Education Law
1. Education Act of 1982
2. RA 6728, as amended by RA 8545
3. Act 2706, as amended by Act 3075
4. CA No. 180
5. RA 9155 - Creation of DepEd
6. RA 7722 - Creation CHED
7. RA 7796 - Creation of TESDA
8. RA 7836 - Regulatory Practice of Teaching Manual of Regulations for Public and Private Technical-Vocational Institutions
9. DepEd, CHED and/ or TESDA Orders
10. Manual of Regulations for Private Higher Education of 2008 and
11. Revised Manual of Regulations for Private Basic Education|
12. RA 10533 – Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013
B. Labor Laws (for Academic and Non-Academic Personnel)
1. Labor Code of the Philippines
2. DOLE Rules and Regulations
IV. EMPLOYMENT STATUS: PROBATIONARY PERSONNEL
A. Employment as a Contract
B. Management Prerogatives and their Limitations
C. On Probation
1. Probationary Employee
2. Probationary Period
3. Duration of Probationary Employment
a) Academic Personnel
i) Formal Education – Basic and Tertiary
ii) Technical/ Vocational
b) Non-Academic Personnel
V. SECURITY OF TENURE
A. Probationary Personnel
1. Security of Tenure of Probationary Academic Personnel
- Cases of Termination: Probationary Teachers
2. Security of Tenure of Probationary Non-Academic Personnel
- Resume of Distinctions In Law Between Probationary Academic Personnel and
Probationary Non-academic Personnel
3. Security of Tenure of Regular or Permanent Status
B. Regular Employment of Non-Academic Personnel
C. Valid Job Contracting Arrangements in Schools/ Agency-Supplied Workers
VI. Legal Issues on Labor Standards for School Personnel
1. Compensation
2. Basis of Minimum Wage
3. Basic Principle in Salary Payment: “NO WORK, NO PAY”
4. Salary Adjustments as a Result of Tuition Fee Increase
5. Overtime Pay
6. Benefits (13th Month Pay, Philhealth, Pag-ibig, SSS, Retirement Pay)
7. Leaves (SIL, Maternity, Paternity, Solo Parents, Special Leave for Women, VAWC Leave, Compassionate Leaves)
8. Working Conditions and Occupational Health and Safety Standards
9. Flexible Work Arrangements in Schools
VII. CURRENT Labor RELATIONs CONCERNS IN SCHOOLS
1. Self-Organization: Stakeholders’ View of Unionism
2. Collective Bargaining and Effective Handling of Labor Disputes
3. Strikes and Lockouts
4. RA 9520: Cooperatives for School Personnel
VIII. Sexual Harassment
IX. SAFE SPACES ACT (Online and Gender-based Harassment in Schools)
X. Juvenile and Justice Welfare Act
XI. Violence Against Women and Their Children Act
XII. Anti-Child Abuse
XIII. Bullying
XIV. Anti-hazing law
XV. Causes of Termination of Pre-School Personnel
A. Progressive Discipline and Summary Discipline
B. Specific Grounds for Termination
1. Failure to Obtain Professional License
2. Violation of Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers
3. Inefficiency and Incompetence in the Performance of Duties
4. Absences/ Tardiness
5. Abandonment (absence from work and deliberate intent to discontinue to return)
- How to declare abandonment?
6. Neglect of Duty
- Failure to Exercise Parental Responsibility
- Unreasonable Delay to Submit Students’ Grades
- Neglect to Keep School Records
7. Immortality
- Teachers as Professionals
8. Serious Misconduct
- Attitude Problem
- Moonlighting
- Cyber Libel
9. Willful Disobedience
- Disobedience to Transfer
- Refusal to Accept Promotion
- Refusal to Relinquish Teaching as Required by School Administration
10. Requirement of Due Process
- The First Notice: The Formal Charge
- The Hearing
- The Second Notice: The Notice of Disciplinary Action or Dismissal
11. Hazards of Illegal Termination and Defective Substantive and/ or Procedural Due Process or Lack thereof
Contact Person: Glaisie Falculan
Mobile Number (+63 949) 870-1832
Telefax: (+632) 8842-7148 or 59
Email: glaisie.cgbp@yahoo.com
