SYLLABUS FOR THE 2020 BAR EXAMINATIONS.

LABOR LAW AND SOCIAL LEGISLATION

Note: All Bar candidates should be guided that — except when provided in the syllabus —
only laws, rules, issuances, with their respective amendments; and canonical doctrines
pertinent to these topics as of June 30, 2019 are examinable materials within the coverage of
the 2020 Bar Examinations.

I. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES

A. Legal basis

1. 1987 Constitution

2. Civil Code

3. Labor Code

B. State policy towards labor

1. Security of tenure

2. Social justice

3. Equal work opportunities

4. Right to self-organization and collective bargaining

5. Construction in favor of labor

6. Burden of proof and quantum of evidence

II. RECRUITMENT AND PLACEMENT

A. Definition of recruitment and placement

B. Regulation of recruitment and placement activities

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 1. Regulatory authorities

a. Philippine Overseas Employment Administration

b. Regulatory and visitorial powers of the Department of Labor and

2. Ban on direct hiring

3. Entities prohibited from recruiting

4. Suspension or cancellation of license or authority

5. Prohibited practices

C. I11ega1 Recruitment

1. Elements

2. Types

3. Illegal recruitment as distinguished from estafa

D. Liabi1ity of local recruitment agency and foreign employer

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 1. Solidary liability

2. Theory of imputed knowledge

E. Termination of contract of migrant worker

F. Employment of non-resident aliens

III. LABOR STANDARDS

A. Conditions of employment

1. Hours of work

a. Principles in determining hours worked and employees exempted or not

b. Compensable Time

' i. Normal hours of work

ii. Night shift differential

iii. Overtime work

(a) Compressed work week

(b) Built-in overtime

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 c. Non-compensable hours; when compensable

i. Meal break

ii. Power interruptions or brownouts

iii. Idle time

iv. Travel time

v. Commuting time

' vi. Waiting time

2. Rest periods

3. Service Charge

B. Wages

1. Definition, components, and exclusions

a. Wage vs. salary

b. Distinguish: facilities and supplements

c. Bonus, 13th month pay

d. Holiday pay

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 2. Principles

a. No work, no pay

b. Equal pay for equal work

c. Fair wage for fair work

' d. Non-diminution of benefits

3. Minimum wage

a. Payment by hours worked

b. Payment by results

4. Payment of wages

5. Prohibitions regarding wages

6. Wage determination

a. Wage order

b. Wage distortion

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 C. Leaves

1. Labor Code

' a. Service incentive leave '

2. Special laws

a. Parental leave for solo parents

b. Expanded maternity leave

c. Paternity leave

d. Gynecological leave

e. Battered woman leave

D. Sexual harassment in the work environment

1. Definition

2. Duties and liabilities of employers

3. Applicable laws:

a. Sexual Harassment Act

b. Safe Spaces Act

E. Working conditions for special groups of employees

1. Apprentices and learners

2. Disabled workers

a. Equal opportunity

b. Discrimination on employment

c. Incentives for employers

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 3. Gender

a. Discrimination

b. Stipulation against marriage

c. Prohibited acts

d. Facilities for women

e. Women working in night clubs, etc. '

4. Minors

5. Kasambahays

6. Homeworkers

7. Solo parents

8. Night workers

9. Migrant workers

10. Security guards

IV. POST-EMPLOYMENT

A. Employer-employee relationship

1. Tests to determine existence

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2. Legitimate subcontracting as distinguished from labor-only contracting

a. Elements

b. Trilateral relationship

c. Liabilities

3. Kinds of employment

a. Regular

b. Casual

c. Contractual

d. Project

e. Seasonal

f. Fixed-term

g. Probationary; private school teachers

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 B. Termination by employer

1. Requisites for validity

a. Substantive due process

i. Just causes

ii. Authorized causes

b. Procedural due process

2. Preventive suspension

3. Illegal dismissal

a. Kinds

i. No just or authorized cause

• ii. Constructive dismissal

(a) Burden of proof

(b) Liability of officers

(c) Reliefs from illegal dismissal

4. Money claims arising from employer-employee relationship

5. When not deemed dismissed; employee on floating status

C. Termination by employee

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 1. With notice to the employer

2. Without notice to the employer

3. Distinguish voluntary resignation and constructive dismissal

D. Retirement

V. LABOR RELATIONS '

A. Right to self-organization

1. Who may or may not exercise the right

a. Doctrine of necessary implication

2. Commingling or mixture of membership

3. Rights and conditions of membership

a. Nature of relationship

i. Member-Labor union

ii. Labor union federation

(a) Disaffiliation

(b) Substitutionary doctrine

B. Bargaining unit

C. Bargaining representative
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 1. Determination of representation status

D. Rights of labor organizations

1. Check off, assessment, agency fees

2. Collective bargaining

a. Duty to bargain collectively

b. Collective Bargaining Agreement

i. Mandatory provisions in a Collective Bargaining Agreement

E. Unfair labor practices

1. Nature, aspects

2. By employers

2. By labor organizations

F. Peaceful concerted activities

1. By labor organization

a. Strike

i. Valid strikes as distinguished from illegal strikes

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 b. Picket

2. By employer

a. Lockout

3. Assumption of jurisdiction by Secretary of Labor and Employment

a. Industry indispensable to the national interest

b. Effects of assumption of jurisdiction

VI. MANAGEMENT PREROGATIVE '

A. Discipline

B. Transfer of employees

C. Productivity standards

D. Bonus

E. Change of working hours

F. Bona fide occupational qualifications

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G. Post-employment restrictions

H. Marriage between employees of competitor-employers

VII. SOCIAL LEGISLATION

A. Social Security System Law

1. Coverage and exclusions

2. Dependents and beneficiaries

3. Benefits

B. Government Service Insurance System Law

1. Coverage and exclusions

2. Dependents and beneficiaries

3. Benefits

C. Limited Portability Law

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D. Disability and death benefits

1. Labor Code

2. Employees Compensation and State Insurance Fund

3. Philippine Overseas Employment Administration-Standard Employment

E. Solo Parents

F. Kasambahay

G. Agrarian Relations

1. Concept of agrarian reform

2. Existence and concept of agricultural tenancy

3. Rights of agricultural tenants

4. Concept of farmworkers

H. Universal Health Care

1. Policy

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 2. Coverage

3. National Health Insurance Program

VIII. JURISDICTION AND REMEDIES

A. Labor Arbiter

1. Jurisdiction of the Labor Arbiter as distinguished from the Regional Director

2. Requirements to perfect appeal to National Labor Relations Commission

3. Reinstatement and/or execution pending appeal

B. National Labor Relations Commission

C. Court of Appeals

D. Supreme Court

E. Bureau of Labor Relations

F. National Conciliation and Mediation Board '

2. Conciliation as distinguished from mediation

3. Preventive mediation

G. Department of Labor and Employment Regional Directors

1. Jurisdiction

2. Recovery and adjudicatory power

H. Department of Labor and Employment Secretary

1. Jurisdiction

2. Visitorial and enforcement powers

3. Power to suspend effects of termination

4. Remedies

I. Voluntary Arbitrator

, 1. Jurisdiction

2. Remedies

J. Prescription of actions

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l. Money claims

2. Illegal dismissal

3. Unfair labor practice

4. Offenses under the Labor Code

5. Illegal recruitment

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