Book VI — Post-Employment
Article 288Penalties.
ELI5— what this means for you
Any person who violates the Labor Code can be fined ₱1,000 to ₱10,000 per violation AND imprisoned for 3 months to 3 years. For corporations, the actual officer responsible — not just the company — faces the penalty personally.
Key point
Labor Code violations = fine + imprisonment. Corporate officers are personally liable.
Official text — PD 442
Penalties.
Except as otherwise provided in this Code, or unless the acts complained of hinge on a question of interpretation or implementation of ambiguous provisions of an existing collective bargaining agreement, any violation of the provisions of this Code declared to be unlawful or penal in nature shall be punished with a fine of not less than One Thousand Pesos (P1,000.00) nor more than Ten Thousand Pesos (P10,000.00) or imprisonment of not less than three months nor more than three years, or both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court.
In addition to such penalty, any alien found guilty shall be summarily deported upon completion of service of sentence.
Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, any criminal offense punished in this Code, shall be under the concurrent jurisdiction of the Municipal or City Courts and the Courts of First Instance. (As amended by Section 3, Batas Pambansa Bilang 70)
Source: lawphil.net (PD 442 as amended)
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