BoardRoom Discussions

Finally, my How To Lose Your Job series can be closed

On August 29, 2007, it was an honor to handle one of the break out sessions of the 1st HR Philippines National Convention and I handled the discussion on Employee Discipline. Using the same approached I employ with fellow HR practitioners, I would like to close this series by discussing Due Process of law from the point of view of management.

In the Philippines, Employee Discipline is one of the rights an investor or capitalist can use to ensure a profitable operations.

“Success of industries is the foundation upon Which just wages may be paid. There can be no success without efficiency. There can not be efficiency without discipline…”

Batangas Transportation Co., et al vs. Bagong Pagkakaisa ng mga employees and Laborers of BTCo., GR No. L-1706 March 10, 1949

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The end of this series is now on sight, a couple of more posts and we’ll be able to conclude this one. For several weeks, we have been discussing the different grounds where an employee can lose his job.

There are two approaches to end employer-employee relationship:

1. Employee initiated or what we know as resignation.
2. Employer initiated or what we know as termination.

On item # 2, an employer is allowed to end the employer- employee relationship on the following reasons:

1. Just Causes or termination because of employee behavior, and
2. Authorized Causes or termination brought about by other factors aside from employee behavior.

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