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Employment Contract Philippines Foreign Employer: Rules Filipino Workers Must Know
An employment contract in the Philippines with a foreign employer must follow Philippine labor rules on recruitment, wages, and deployment. Here is how.
Breach of Contract: Enforceability of Employment Contracts Absent Actual Deployment
Philippine Supreme Court ruling on whether a perfected employment contract binds parties even without actual deployment, and which court has jurisdiction over breach claims.
Breach of Contract: When a Perfected Employment Contract Binds the Employer Even Without Deployment
A Supreme Court ruling clarifies that a perfected employment contract creates employer-employee relations even if deployment never happens, and labor arbiters have jurisdiction over resulting claims.
Deception and Deployment: Understanding Illegal Recruitment and Estafa in Philippine Law
A Supreme Court ruling clarifies how illegal recruitment in large scale differs from estafa, and why both can apply to the same fraudulent scheme.
Seafarer Breach Before Boarding: Damages Despite No Employer-Employee Relationship
Philippine Supreme Court rules a seafarer can claim damages for unjustified non-deployment even without employer-employee relationship.
Overseas Recruitment Agencies: Solidary Liability for Deployed Workers
Philippine Supreme Court ruling on recruitment agencies' joint and solidary liability for overseas workers' unpaid wages and deployment violations.
Police Power vs Individual Rights: Regulating OFW Deployment
The Supreme Court upholds the Artist Record Book requirement for performing artists bound abroad as a valid exercise of police power.