Registration of a sole proprietor’s trade name with the DTI is relatively faster and less expensive as compared to registration of other forms of business with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), such as corporations.
When a transfer is not unreasonable, nor inconvenient, nor prejudicial to him, and it does not involve a demotion in rank or a diminution of his salaries, benefits, and other privileges, the employee may not complain that it amounts to a constructive dismissal.
The doctrine of fair use allows the courts to deviate from strictly applying the copyright laws when their rigid application would stifle the creativity that they are designed to foster and when it would frustrate the State’s function to promote the diffusion of knowledge and information.
Pursuant to the constitutional mandate to promote the preferential use of voluntary modes of settling disputes, particularly conciliation-mediation, it is the intent and purpose of these Rules to continuously strengthen and institutionalize the Single Entry Approach (SEnA), with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and its Regional Offices, the National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) and its Regional Branches, and the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) and its Regional Arbitration Branches as the primary implementing agencies.
Section 183. The insurer in a life insurance contract shall be liable in case of suicide only when it is committed after the policy has been in force for a period of two (2) years from the date of its issue or of its last reinstatement, unless the policy provides a shorter period: Provided, however, That suicide committed in the state of insanity shall be compensable regardless of the date of commission.
To ensure that a work pool arrangement is not used as a scheme to circumvent the employees’ security of tenure, the employer must prove that (i) a work pool in fact exists, and (ii) the members therein are free to leave anytime and offer their services to other employers.
There is no specifically prescribed means to resolve a conflict of laws problem; choice of law varies depending on the circumstances. Courts may employ the “state with the most significant relationship” test in determining choice of law.
In Proclamation No. 28, former President Diosdado Macapagal declared June 12 as Philippine Independence Day.
Double insurance exists when the same person is insured by several insurers separately in respect to the same subject and interest. (Sec. 95, Amended Insurance Code of the Philippines)
There is over insurance if the insured takes out an insurance over the property insured in an amount which is in excess of the value of his insurable interest. (Aquino, Essentials of Insurance, 2018, p. 283)
[Download PDF] Department Order No. 248-A-25: Supplemental Guidelines Clarifying and Amending Provisions of DOLE Department Order No. 248, Series of 2025
