COR JESU COLLEGE OF LAW

LABOR LAW REVIEW EXAMINATION

LABOR STANDARDS
ATTY. RENE ALEXIS P. VILLARENTE
Instruction:
This partakes of a take home examination but still
students are expected to do this work individually. This is a timed
examination so you five (5) days to submit your answers by e-mail to
this address renealexisvillarente@gmail.com counted from today
September 5, 2015. You are to submit the hard copy of your answers
on Saturday September 12, 2015 at 10:00 oclock in the morning at the
CJC Campus as the professor will meet the students.
1. Give five (5) State Policies found in the 1987 Constitution that
pertains to Labor and briefly explain each.
Art. II, Section 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, 20
Art III, Section 1, 4, 8
2. Give the provision that pertains to Labor found in Article XIII of the
1987 Constitution. Why is Labor part of Social Justice and Human
Rights?
ARTICLE II, SECS. 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, 20.
Social Justice is neither communism, nor despotism, nor atomism,
nor anarchy, but the humanization of laws and the equalization of
social and economic forces by the State so that justice in its
rational and objectively secular conception may at least be
approximated. [Calalang vs. Williams, 1940]
3. Give the provision in the Civil Code that defines Contract of Labor.
Differentiate contract of labor from contract of sale.
4. Define illegal recruitment under Section 5, RA 10022.
different from Section 6 of RA 8042?

How is it

5. Distinguish License from Authority to conduct recruitment and

placement of workers.

6. What are the elements of simple illegal recruitment and illegal

recruitment in a large scale? Distinguish simple from large scale illegal
recruitment.
7. Discuss the concept of hours of work. Who are those covered and
not covered by it?
8. What is a compressed work week?
9. Discuss fully maternity and paternity leave.
10. What are the rules that govern employment of minors?