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industrial peace.
Section 10. The State shall promote social justice in all phases
The State shall regulate the relations between workers and of national development.
employers, recognizing the right of labor to its just share in the
fruits of production and the right of enterprises to reasonable Section 18. The State affirms labor as a primary social
returns to investments, and to expansion and growth. economic force. It shall protect the rights of workers and
promote their welfare.
Women:
Section 14. The State shall protect working women by Article III
providing safe and healthful working conditions, taking into
account their maternal functions, and such facilities and Section 8. The right of the people, including those employed in
opportunities that will enhance their welfare and enable them the public and private sectors, to form unions, associations, or
to realize their full potential in the service of the nation. societies for purposes not contrary to law shall not be
abridged.
Civil Code - (Sec II) Contract of Labor
Article XIII
Art. 1700. The relations between capital and labor are not
merely contractual. They are so impressed with public interest Labor:
that labor contracts must yield to the common good. Therefore, Section 3. The State shall afford full protection to labor, local
such contracts are subject to the special laws on labor unions, and overseas, organized and unorganized, and promote full
collective bargaining, strikes and lockouts, closed shop, employment and equality of employment opportunities for all.
wages, working conditions, hours of labor and similar subjects.
It shall guarantee the rights of all workers to self-organization,
Art. 1702. In case of doubt, all labor legislation and all labor collective bargaining and negotiations, and peaceful concerted
contracts shall be construed in favor of the safety and decent activities, including the right to strike in accordance with law.
living for the laborer. They shall be entitled to security of tenure, humane conditions
of work, and a living wage. They shall also participate in policy
and decision-making processes affecting their rights and
I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES benefits as may be provided by law.
Labor Code principal labor law of the country. But even The State shall promote the principle of shared responsibility
now, there are Labor Laws that are not found in the Labor between workers and employers and the preferential use of
Code. voluntary modes in settling disputes, including conciliation, and
Labor Standards sets out the minimum terms, conditions, Social Legislation
and benefits of employment that employers must provide or the promotion of the welfare of all the people, the adoption
comply with and to which employees are entitled as a matter of by the government of measures calculated to insure economic
legal right stability of all the component elements of society thru the
maintenance of proper economic and social equilibrium in the
Labor Relations defines the status, rights and duties, as interrelations of the members of the community,
well as the institutional mechanisms that govern the individual constitutionally, thru the adoption of measures legally
and collective interactions between employers, employees and justifiable, or extra-constitutionally, thru the exercise of powers
their representatives underlying the existence of all governments, on the time
honored principle of salus populi esta suprema lex