Book III — Conditions of Employment
Article 136Stipulation against marriage.
ELI5— what this means for you
Your employer cannot require you to stay unmarried as a condition of employment, or automatically consider you resigned when you get married. Firing a woman employee solely because she got married is illegal.
Key point
Contract clause saying you'll be fired if you get married? That clause is void and unenforceable.
Official text — PD 442
Stipulation against marriage.
It shall be unlawful for an employer to require as a condition of employment or continuation of employment that a woman employee shall not get married, or to stipulate expressly or tacitly that upon getting married, a woman employee shall be deemed resigned or separated, or to actually dismiss, discharge, discriminate or otherwise prejudice a woman employee merely by reason of her marriage.
Source: lawphil.net (PD 442 as amended)
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