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Practical Law Company’s Employment and employee benefits: Philippines Q&A Guide has now been published online and is available to access or download as PDF. The Guide was contributed by SyCipLawEmployment & Immigration Department Head Luisito V. Liban.

The Guide provides an overview of key practical issues including employment status; background checks; permissions to work; contractual and implied terms of employment; minimum wages; restrictions on working time; illness and injury; rights of parents and carers; data protection; discrimination and harassment; dismissals; redundancies; taxation; employer and parent company liability; employee representation and consultation; consequence of business transfers; intellectual property; restraint of trade agreements and proposals for reform. Content is accurate as of January 1, 2015.

The Guide was first published in the Employment and Employee Benefits Multi-Jurisdictional Guide 2014/15 and is reproduced with permission of the publisher, Thomson Reuters 2014.