An employer may terminate an employment for serious misconduct or willful disobedience by the employee of the lawful orders of his employer or his representative in connection with his work. (Article 297, par. a, Labor Code)

According to Article 2180 of the Civil Code, employers shall be liable for the damages caused by their employees acting within the scope of their assigned tasks.

Private institutions that have breastfeeding or lactation stations shall be entitled to deduct the expenses they incurred for setting up these stations as deductible expenses for income tax purposes up to twice the actual amount incurred.

Nursing employees shall be granted break intervals in addition to the regular time off for meals to breastfeed or express milk. These intervals, which shall include the time it takes an employee to get to and from the workplace lactation station, shall be counted as compensable hours worked.

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated in 120 countries pursuant to the Innocenti Declaration on the Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding and the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, the International Code on the Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and Related Products, and subsequent resolutions of the World Health Assembly, to which the Philippines is a signatory.

Any person who shall violate the provisions of the Civil Code on warranties shall be subject to fine of not less than Five Hundred Pesos (P500.00) but not more than Five Thousand Pesos (P5,000.00) or an imprisonment of not less than three (3) months but not more than two (2) years or both upon the discretion of the court.

A sole proprietorship is a form of business organization with only one proprietary owner, a single individual who conducts business under his own name or a business name. (p.3, Commentaries and Jurisprudence on the Revised Corporation Code of the Philippines, Aquino, 2020)

Facilities refer to items of expense necessary for the existence and subsistence of the employee and his/her family so that, by express provision of law, they form part of the wage and when furnished by the employer are deductible therefrom.

Patents may be cancelled on various grounds set out by the Intellectual Property Code. Cancellation of patent would deprive the holder thereof certain rights as provided below.

April 22nd of every year is declared as “Philippines’ Earth Day” by virtue of Proclamation No. 1481, series of 2008.