An employer may terminate an employment for gross and habitual neglect by the employee of his duties. (Article 297, Labor Code)

Gross neglect is defined as the absence of that diligence that an ordinary prudent man would use in his/her own affairs. (Section 4, par. j, Rule I-A, DOLE D.O. No. 147-15)

Habitual neglect refers to the repeated failure to perform one’s duties over a period of time, depending upon the circumstances. (Section 4, par. k, Rule I-A, DOLE D.O. No. 147-15)

Any employee may be required by the employer to perform overtime work when there is urgent work to be performed on machines, installations, or equipment, in order to avoid serious loss or damage to the employer or some other cause of similar nature. (Article 89 (c), Labor Code of the Philippines)

Separation pay refers to the compensation given to an employee who is terminated from employment due to authorized causes provided in Articles 298 and 299 of the Labor Code of the Philippines.

An employee’s entitlement to separation pay depends on the ground for his/her termination.

Where the termination of an employee is for authorized causes, separation pay is due.

News as expressed in a video footage is entitled to copyright protection. Broadcasting organizations have not only copyright on but also neighboring rights over their broadcasts.

The rule is that an employee’s acquittal in a criminal case does not preclude a finding that he has been guilty of acts inimical to the employer’s interest.

Under the Intellectual Property Code, performers enjoy exclusive, moral, and economic rights.

Exclusive rights of performers include the right to authorize the broadcasting, communication, direct or indirect reproduction, distribution of their performances, and the right to make available their performances.

Moral rights of performers include the right to claim and be identified as the performer, and to object to any distortion, mutilation and other modification of his performances.

Economic rights of performers include the right to remuneration and commercial rentals for their performances. (Sections 203 and 204, Intellectual Property Code)

There is project employment when the employment has been fixed for a specific project or undertaking, the completion or termination of which has been determined at the time of engagement of the employee.

The rights in a mark shall be acquired through registration made validly in accordance with the provisions of this law.

A contract of adhesion is defined as one where one of the parties imposes a ready-made form of contract which the other party may accept or reject, but which the latter cannot modify.

What distinguishes managerial employees from rank and file employees is that the former act in the interest of the employer in supervising the latter.