INSTANCES WHERE CONTRACT OF AGENCY CANNOT BE REVOKED AT WILL BY THE PRINCIPAL

• The principal may revoke the agency at will.

• An agency cannot be revoked if a bilateral contract depends upon it, or if it is the means of fulfilling an obligation already contracted, or if a partner is appointed manager of a partnership in the contract of partnership and his removal from the management is unjustifiable.

• Bilateral contract that depends upon the agency is considered an agency coupled with an interest, making it an exception to the general rule of revocability at will.

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WHO MAY BE EXEMPTED FROM PAYING THE SALARY DIFFERENTIAL OF FEMALE EMPLOYEE WHO AVAILED OF MATERNITY LEAVE

• RA 11210 provides that workers availing of the maternity leave period and benefits must receive their full pay.

• Employers from the private sector shall be responsible for payment of the salary differential between the actual cash benefits received from the SSS by the covered female workers and their average weekly or regular wages, for the entire duration of the maternity leave.

• There are however establishments that are exempted from paying salary differential of employees who availed the maternity leave benefit.

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WHAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE FRANCHISING AGREEMENT

• At present, there is no specific law on franchising

• Franchising refers to the method of using another’s perfected business concept

• Franchising agreement is a written contract between the franchisor and the franchisee

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OBLIGATIONS OF THE USUFRUCTUARY

• The usufructuary has the basic obligation to preserve the property of another

• He may be obliged to make an inventory of the properties under usufruct

• He may also be obliged to give a security

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