Employees resigning without just cause must serve a written notice one month in advance to avoid being liable for damages.
Fulfilling military or civic duty does not terminate employment; employees must be reinstated upon returning within one month of relief.
Employees terminated for redundancy or labor-saving devices receive separation pay of at least one month per year of service.
Employees may immediately resign without notice due to serious insult, inhuman treatment, crimes by the employer, or similar abusive circumstances.
Employees must file all money claims arising from employer-employee relations within three years from the time the cause of action accrued.
Probationary employment cannot exceed six months; employees allowed to work beyond this period are automatically considered regular employees.
Casual employees rendering at least one year of service, whether continuous or broken, become regular employees for that specific activity.
Employees terminated due to prohibited or prejudicial disease are entitled to separation pay of at least one month salary.
Unjustly dismissed regular employees are entitled to reinstatement without loss of seniority rights, alongside full backwages and other benefits.
The compulsory retirement age is sixty-five, granting eligible private sector employees at least one-half month salary for every year of service.
