Ovearseas employment contract : perfection and commencement

Management prerogatives and security of tenure of OFWs

Obligation of recruitment agencies to OFWs

Interpretetion of overseas employment contracts

Breach of contract

Contract substitution is prohibited

Illegal recruitment

Estafa

Trafficking in persons

Termination of employment

2-notice rule in valid dismissal proceedings

Grounds for dismissal

Venue of actions for complaint for illegal dismissal

Evidence

Joint and solidarity liability of agency and employer

Liberal construction of the rules of court : when allowed

Money claims

Money claims under R.A. 10022

Prescription of money claims

On applicable interest rate

Withholding of documents is an actionable wrong

Award of moral and exemplary damages and attorney's fee's

Nominal damages awarded for failure to observe due process in termination of employment

Attorney's fees

Seafarers : nature of employment

Seafarers' overtime pay

Seafarers not entitled to separation pay

Liabilities of the employer when the seafarer suffers injury or illness during the term of his/her contract

Disabilities

Requirements for compensability

Rule on death benefits

Occupational diseases under section 32-A of POEA-SEC

Release, waiver and quitclaim

Appeal to the NLRC

Petition for certiorari to the court of aapeals (Rule 65 of the rules of court)

Petition for review on certiorari by the Supreme Court (Rule 45 of the rules of court)

Miscellaneous issues