WORK IMMERSION

RIGHT AND DUTIES OF EMPLOYEES

Prepared by; Jennifer B. Obera

 Republic Act No. 110581 is an Act Strengthening
Compliance with Occupational Safety and Health
Standards and providing for Violations thereof.
 Its Section 1 tells that “The State affirms labor as a
primary social and economic force, and a safe and
healthy workforce is integral part. The Sate shall
ensure a safe and healthful workforce for all
working people by affording them a full protection
against all hazards in their work environment.
  Every employer, contractor or subcontractor, if any, and any
person who manages, control, or supervises the work being
undertaken shall: Duties of Employers
1. Furnish the workers a place of employment free from hazardous
conditions that are causing or likely to cause death, illness or physical harm
to the workers.
2. Give complete job safety instructions or orientation to al the workers
especially to those entering the job for the first time.
3. Inform the workers of the hazard associated with their work health risks
involved or to which they are exposed to.
 Duties of Employers
4. Use only approved devices and equipment for the work place.
5. Comply with OSH Standards including training, medical
examination and where necessary provision of protective and safety
devices such as personal protective equipment (PPE) and machine
guards
6. Allow workers and their safety and health representatives to
participate actively in thee process of organizing, planning,
implementing and evaluating the safety and health program.
7. Provide where necessary, for measure to deal with emergencies
and accidents including first aid arrangements.
 Duties of the Workers
1. Every worker shall participate in ensuring compliance with OSH
standards in the workplace. The worker shall make proper use of all
safeguards and safety devices furnished for the worker’s protection
and that of others, and shall observe instructions to prevent accidents
or imminent danger situations in the workplace. The worker shall
observe the prescribed steps to be taken in case of emergency.
2. The worker shall report to the supervisor any work hazard that
may be encountered in the workplace.
 Duties of Other Persons
1. It shall be the duty of any person including the builder or
contractor who visits, builds, renovates, or installs devices or
conducts business in any establishment or workplace, to comply with
the provision of tis Act and in any regulations issued by the
Secretary of Labor and Employment.
2. Whenever two or more undertakings are engaged in activities
simultaneously in one workplace, it shall be the duty of all engaged
to collaborate in the application of OSH standards and regulations.
Section 5-8 Worker’s Rights
1. Worker’s Rights The right to safety and health at work shall be
to Know guaranteed. All workers shall be appropriately
informed by the employer about all types of hazards in
the workplace, provided access to training and
education on chemical safety, and to orientation on the
date sheet of chemical safety, electrical safety,
mechanical safety and ergonomical safety.
The workers has the right of refusal to work without
threat or reprisal from the employer if, as determined
2. Workers’ Right by the DOLE, an imminent danger situation exists in
to Refuse to Unsafe the workplace that may result in illness, injury or
Work death
Section 5-8 Worker’s Rights
4. workers’ Right to Every employer, contractor or subcontractor, if any,
Personal Protective shall provide his workers free of charge protective
Equipment (PPE) equipment for their eye, face, hands and feet, and
lifeline, safety belt or harness, gas or dust respirators
or masks, and protective shields whenever necessary
by reason of the hazardous work process or
environment, chemical, radiological, mechanical and
other irritants or hazards capable of causing injury or
impairment in any part of the body through
absorption, inhalation or personal contact. All PPE
shall be of the appropriate type as tested and approved
by the DOLE based on its standards.
Section 5-8 Worker’s Rights
Corrective actions to eliminate the danger that
have not undertaken by the employer.
3. The Right to Workers and their representative shall have the
Report Accidents right to report accidents, dangerous occurrences,
and hazards to the employer, to the DOLE and to
other concerned government agencies exerting
jurisdiction as the competent authority in the
specific industry or economic.
Refers to not discussing internal goings-on-with co-workers. In other
instances, it refers to not sharing trade secrets and other company
information with competitors, the press or anyone outside of your
company.
Casual Definition of Confidentiality
 If yourepeat confidential statements made by co-
workers, even if the original source doesn’t hear about
your gossip, the people you tell might lose respect for
you and no longer trust you. If you gossip with
customers, they might tell your competitors, who will
be less likely to hire you in the future.
• Examples of breaking casual, confidential
communication are:
1. Repeating a co-workers’ opinion of his boss.
2. Revealing the fact that a peer is interviewing with
another company,
3. Forwarding a confidential email from one employee to
another,
4. Sharing information, you overheard others discussing
or passing around a document you found that wasn’t
intended for others.
LEGAL DEFINITION OF CONFIDENTIALITY

 Once you become an employee or worker, you may

have access to information for your company such
as salaries, employee perks, client lists, trade
secrets, sales numbers, customer information, news
about pending terminations , reasons for a firing,
phone codes or computer passwords. Your
employers don’t want the employees to sign a
confidentiality agreement to keep the secrets even if
they leave already.
Legal Examples:
As an employee or worker, you must not divulge the following information:

 Recipes
 Research
 Financial Information
 Computer and building security information
 Customer lists
 Production Process
 Website Traffic statistics
 Patents
 Companies that collect data on customers cannot share this information
with other companies unless it inform customers in advance
 Divulging inside information can
damage your former employer,
allowing them to sue you to recover
those damages.
 Data Privacy Act of the Philippines

 The Data Privacy Act (DPA), or Republic Act No.

10173 was passed by the Philippine Congress in 2012
and finally implemented five years later in 2016. R.A.
10173 assures the :free flow of information to promote
innovation and growth” (Republic Act No. 10173, Ch.
1, Sec.2) while protecting the user’s fundamental rights
to privacy.
How it is implemented?
• RA 10173 protects and maintains the right of customers to
confidentiality by setting a legal list of rules for companies to
regulate the collection, handling, and disposal of all personal
information.

 Companies legally responsible for keeping their customers’ data

protected from third parties or any form of misuse, internally or
externally.
What is “Personal Information”?

 “Personal Information” refers to any information,

whether recorded in a material form or not, from which
the identity of an individual is apparent or can be
reasonably and directly ascertained by the entity
holding the information, or when put together with
other information would directly and certainly identify
an individual (Republic Act No. 10173, Ch 1, Sec. 3)
What is “Sensitive Personal Information”?

1. About an individual’s race, ethnic origin, marital status, age, color,

and religious, philosophical or political affiliations;
2. About an individual’s health, education, generic or sexual life of a
person, or to any proceeding for any offense committed or alleged to
have been committed by such person, the disposal of such
proceedings, or the sentence of any court in such proceedings;
3. Issued by government agencies peculiar to an individual who
includes, but not limited to ,social security numbers, previous or
present health records, licenses or its denials, suspension or
revocation, and tax returns.
Conflict – is a state of incompatibility of
ideas between two or more parties or
individuals or groups that differ in attitudes,
values or needs.
Conflict Resolution Techniques
1. Listen then speak out
2. Gather the group
3. Be impartial
4. Do not postpone conflicts resolution
5. Promote Teamwork
6. Broadcast praises
How will the conflict be
prevented?
Activity: My Actions!

Direction: Read the following situations and answer the questions

that follow.

1. There is a group at work that often gossips about others on the

job. You like these people but don’t want to part of the gossip
scene. What will you do?

2. Your supervisor wants you to work overtime every week, but you
have other commitments outside of work. What will you do?
ACTIVITY 2: Past and Future

A. You have probably experienced

having conflict with a classmate in
your school, a conflict with your
sibling/s at home or your friend, group
mates or teammate. Share your
experience on this in the class.
 Duties of Duties of
Data Privacy
Employer Employees
Act

Worker’s Rights Confidential Conflict

Information Resolution