Republic Act No. 868: An act to amend certain provisions of the private employment agency law in order to give added protection to applicants for employment

In plain language

Republic Act No. 856 amends the Private Employment Agency Law to strengthen contract requirements, safeguard minors and young female applicants, and impose stricter penalties for violations.

Contracts must be in a language the applicant understands.

Contracts executed before public defender, clerk of court, or justice of peace, who must explain terms.

Special requirements for minors and female applicants below fourteen.

Prohibition of recruiting females below fourteen or minors without written consent.

Penalties of fines and imprisonment, with harsher sentences for specific violations.

Additional penalties for public defenders, clerks, justice of peace, or recruiters.

employment law

private employment agency

applicant protection

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 868, June 16, 1953 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION THREE OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED SIX HUNDRED, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PRESCRIBE A GRADUATED SCALE FOR THE INCOME TAX ON CORPORATIONS BY AMENDING SECTIONS TWENTY-FOUR AND FIFTY-FOUR OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE NATIONAL INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, AS AMENDED, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

Section 1

Section three of Republic Act Numbered Six hundred is amended to read as follows:

> "Section 3. The provisions of this Act shall apply to income received from January first, nineteen hundred and fifty-one to December thirty-one, nineteen hundred and fifty-four after the expiration of which later date the provisions of Republic Act Numbered Five hundred and ninety amending sections twenty-four and fifty-four of the National Internal Revenue Code, as amended, shall be in full force and effect."

Section 2

This Act shall take effect upon its approval

Approved, June 16, 1953.

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