Proclamation No. 470, series of 1994 declares the first week of October of every year as LINGGO NG KATANDAANG FILIPINO or ELDERLY FILIPINO WEEK.
During this week, we celebrate the immeasurable contributions of our beloved Senior Citizens to Nation Building. [ SOURCE: Proclamation No. 470, September 26, 1994 ]
While employers are obliged to provide their employees with a weekly rest day of not less than twenty (24) consecutive hours, the Labor Code, under Article 92, nonetheless recognizes circumstances when the employer may compel his or her employee to work on a rest day.
Proclamation No. 244, series of 1993 declares September of every year as the National Clean-up Month, and every 17th to the 23rd of each September as the World Clean and Green Week. During this month and week, clean-up and greening activities of the government, and of the Global YES Resolution, are observed and intensified.
A contract of insurance is an agreement whereby one undertakes for a consideration to indemnify another against loss, damage or liability arising from an unknown or contingent event. (Sec. 2(a) of R.A. No. No. 10607, also known as “The Insurance Code”)
The court clarified that copyright infringement occurs when an unauthorized party exercises economic rights, including communication to the public, without consent. Filscap, accredited to enforce copyright, had valid standing to sue. The court noted that Home Cable’s broadcast of music through cable TV constituted a public communication of copyrighted works.
Legal or Intestate Succession, also called Intestacy, is a mode of succession which generally takes place when a person (“decedent”) dies without a will. Under this mode, it is the law which will dictate the proper distribution of the decedent’s whole estate. Heirs who inherit under legal or intestate succession are called “intestate heirs.”
Recognizing the progress achieved in the field of medicine in the Philippines, and the value of medical science in the people’s daily lives, Proclamation No. 439, s. 1957 was issued declaring the fourth week of September as the observance of “Medicine Week.”
Under Philippine laws, the general rule is that an employer cannot compel an employee to work overtime. The country’s legal system, however, allows for exceptions to this general rule, such as those found under Article 89 of the Labor Code.
The Family Code of the Philippines allows the legal separation between husband and wife, which involves the separation of the spouses’ living arrangements (also called “bed-and-board”). Under Article 55 of the Family Code, one of the grounds for legal separation is the abandonment of a spouse without just cause for a period of more than one year. Jurisprudence explains that this abandonment must not only be physical estrangement but also amount to financial and moral desertion. The abandonment must likewise be unjustified.
The month of September marks the celebration of the “Public Relations Month” in the Philippines, by virtue of Proclamation No. 1357 signed by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on August 13, 2007. Every September, the Public Relations Society of the Philippines, the country’s premier organization for PR professionals, organizes a public congress whereby PR practitioners and other interested participants gather to pay homage to the craft of public relations, and through seminars and insightful talks, equip themselves with the tools to traverse this dynamic and competitive field.
