To promote further transparency, the SEC issued Memorandum Circular No. 1, Series of 2021, providing for the guidelines on the......

A regular employment is an arrangement where the employee has been engaged to perform work which is usually......

The law allows the reorganization of two or more corporations to either merge into a single corporation which shall be one of the constituent corporations, or consolidate into a single new corporation...

As its dictionary meaning goes, to hire is to employ, to engage, to appoint, to enlist, to sign up or to secure the services of someone. Hiring refers to the process of engaging somebody for his servi...

To hire someone as an employee or a consultant will depend on three important factors. First is control. An employee is someone you supervise from the get go, from the processing of the work all the w...

The preferential use of voluntary modes in settling disputes between workers and employers for the promotion of industrial peace is well recognized in the Constitution and the labor laws. Any labor is...

A Real Estate Investment Trust or REIT is a company owning and operating income-generating real estate. In order to further promote the development of the capital market in the Philippines, the SEC is...

What is CYBERLIBEL? It is a public and malicious imputation of a crime, or of a vice or defect, real or imaginary, or any act, omission, condition, status, or circumstance tending to cause the dishono...

Data protection and privacy should not hinder the government from collecting, using, and sharing personal information during this time of public health emergency. The direction is lawful and straightf...

In a recent memo, the Philippine Stock Exchange is urging the publicly listed companies to hold their Annual Stockholders’ Meetings (ASM) scheduled over the coming weeks through remote communication...