TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 & 28, 2025 * 1:30PM TO 4:45PM VIA ZOOM
Defective employment contracts and unlawful HR policies can get you into trouble and can cost you unnecessary compensation expenses. And you will not know this until years later when you get a complaint from DOLE or get sued by your employee for unfair labor practices.
Attend this two-session solutions-oriented webinar that will provide business owners, HR practitioners, legal counsels and laymen the right way to craft a working HR policy and employment contract complete with special clauses that you must incorporate in your contract that is practical and aligned with existing Philippine labor laws. Yes! You can save a lot on legal and consulting fees by learning all of these for a trouble-free working environment.
We will feature latest Supreme Court rulings on employment, valuable advice, HR best practices and many more!
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.
I. Policies, defined
II. What to consider in crafting HR policies
a. The 1987 Constitution
b. Laws
c. Rules and Regulations
III. Non-disciplinary policies
a. Recruitment/ hiring policies
i. Laws, rules and regulations on recruitment/ hiring policies
ii. Rules against nepotism
iii. Rules on marriage
iv. Policy on maintenance of body weight
v. Rule on BFOQ
vi. Transfer in relation to marriage of employees
b. Compensation and Benefits Policies
i. Wage/salaries and increases
ii. Hours of work
iii. Overtime, undertime
iv. Holiday Pay
v. Service incentive leave
vi. Leave benefits under VAWC
vii. Special Leave Benefit (Gynecological leave)
viii. Paternity leave
ix. Maternity leave
x. Parental leave/solo parent leave
xi. Other leave benefits
1. Vacation leave
2. Sick leave
3. Bereavement/ funeral leave
xii. 13th month and other bonuses
xiii. Voluntary benefits above that mandated by law
IV. Employment policies
a. Probationary status
b. Regularization
c. Casual employment
d. Fixed-term
e. Project employment
f. Seasonal employment
g. Part-time employment
V. Job contracting policies
a. Compliance with DO 174
b. Service Agreement
c. Rates and salaries of contractor’s employees
VI. Other policies
a. HIV/ AIDS
b. TB
c. Hepa B
d. Occupational Safety and Health
e. Drug-free workplace policy
VII. Disciplinary Policies
a. Concept of employee discipline
b. Management prerogative to discipline
c. Security of tenure
d. Discipline not punishable with dismissal
i. Lawful cause
ii. Procedural due process
iii. Written warning
iv. Reprimand
v. Procedural policies in enforcement of discipline
e. Discipline punishable with dismissal
i. Grounds for dismissal
1. Just cause (Articles 297, 264 [a], 263 [g] of the Labor Code, as amended)
ii. Procedural due process for dismissal
1. Policy in issuing notices to explain
2. Notices of hearing
3. Conduct of hearing/ conference
4. Notice of dismissal
iii. Suspension
iv. Demotion
v. Transfer due to commission of violation
vi. Preventive suspension
f. How to deal with violators of disciplinary policies
i. Legal standards vs. company’s leniency
g. Solutions and best legal defenses against frequently violated policies on:
i. Absenteeism
ii. Tardiness
iii. Falsification
iv. Theft/ qualified theft
v. Undertime
vi. Insubordination
vii. Abandonment of post
viii. Abandonment of work
ix. Smoking
x. Technology-related offenses
1. Use of social networking: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
2. Hacking, malicious spreading of computer viruses
3. Downloading/ uploading documents
4. Concept of electronic evidence
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Email: glaisie.cgbp@yahoo.com
