Philippine Law School

AGRARIAN LAW & SOCIAL LEGISLATION

Atty. Earl Louie M. Masacayan, LL.M.

Schedule: Thursday 7:00PM-9:00PM

Online Platform: Microsoft Teams
Method of Discussion: Online Recitation / Reporting
Recommended Text: AGRARIAN LAW AND SOCIAL LEGISLATION by UNGOS
Requirements:
1. Attendance (10%)
2. Case Digests (10%)
3. Recitation (10%)
4. Reporting (10%)
5. Midterm Exam (30%)
6. Final Exam (30%)

I. Agrarian Reform

A. Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)

1. Agrarian Law
2. Agrarian Reform
3. Reason for Alternatives to Land Distribution
4. Applicability of CARL
• Natalia Realty Development vs. DAR (G.R. No. 103302)
5. Constitutionality of CARP
6. Police Power as Doctrinal Basis of Agrarian Reform
• Associacion de Agricultores vs. Talisa-Silay Milling (G.R. No. L-19937)
7. Primary Objective of Land Reform
8. Definitions
• Agriculture, Agricultural Enterprise or Agricultural Activity
• Agricultural Land
• Agrarian Dispute
• Idle or Abandoned Land
• Farmer
• Farmworker
• Regular
• Seasonal
• Other Farmworker
• Cooperatives
• Rural Women
9. Raising of Livestock, Poultry, or Fish
• Luz Farms vs. Secretary of Agrarian Reform (G.R. No. 178895)
10. Coverage and Scope
11. Schedule of Implementation
12. Retention Limits
• Daez vs. CA (G.R. No. 133507)
• Rodriguez vs. Salvador (G.R. No. 171972)
13. Priorities
14. Multinational Corporation
15. Ancestral Lands
16. Exemptions and Exclusion
• Alita vs. CA (G.R. No. 78517)
• Natalia Realty vs. DAR (G.R. No. 103302)
• DAR vs. Sutton (G.R. No. 162070)
 • Milestone Farms, Inc. vs. Office of the President (G.R. No. 182332)
• Central Mindanao University vs. DARAB (G.R. No. 100091)
• DAR vs. DECS (G.R. No. 158228)
• Roxas & Company, Inc. vs. DAMBA-NSFR (G.R. No. 149548)
• Buklod ng Magbubukid vs. E.M. Ramos & Sons (G.R. No. 131481)
• Republic vs. Lopez Agri Business Corp. (G.R. No. 178895)
• Province of Camarines Sur vs. CA (G.R. No. 103125)
17. Commercial Farming
18. Determination of Lease Rentals
19. Production-Sharing Plan
20. Registration of Landowners
21. Registration of Beneficiaries
22. Land Acquisition
23. Compensation
• Determination
• Hacienda Luisita vs. PARC (G.R. No. 171101)
• Land Bank vs. Dumlao (G.R. No. 167809)
• Land Bank vs. Soriano (G.R. No. 180772)
• Land Bank vs. Orilla (G.R. No. 157206)
• Land Bank vs. Barrido (G.R. No. 183688)
• Land Bank v. Colarina (G.R. No. 176410)
• Land Bank v. Celada (G.R. No. 164876)
• Valuation and Mode
• Land Bank v. Natividad (G.R. No. 127198)
• Lubrica v. Land Bank (G.R. No. 170220)
• Association of Small Landowners in the Philippines v. Secretary of
Agrarian Reform (G.R. No. 79310)
• Land Bank v. CA (G.R. No. 118712)
• Land Bank v. CA (G.R. No. 128557)
• Santos v. Land Bank (G.R. No. 137431)
• Land Bank v. CA (G.R. No. 128557)
• Incentives for Voluntary Offer for Sales
• Voluntary Land Transfer
• Association of Small Landowners in the Philippines vs. Secretary of
Agrarian Reform (G.R. No. 78742)
• Roxas & Co. vs. CA (G.R. No. 127876)
• Payment of Compensation by Beneficiaries Under Voluntary Land Transfer
24. Land Redistribution
• Cases:
• Mago vs. Barbin (G.R. No. 173923)
• Padua vs. CA (G.R. No. 153456)
• Pasco vs. Pison-Arceo Agri. Dev. Corp. (G.R. No. 165501)
• Estribillo v. DAR (G.R. No. 159674)
• Estate of Vda. De Panlilio v. Dizon (G.R. No. 148777)
• Qualified Beneficiaries
• Distribution Limit
• Award to Beneficiaries
• Award Ceilings for Beneficiaries
• Payment by Beneficiaries
25. Corporate Landowners (Stock Distribution Option)
• Hacienda Luisita vs. PARC (G.R. No. 171101)
26. Production Sharing
27. Alternative Business Arrangements (Joint Economic Enterprises in a Post Distribution
Scenario: Making Landowner-Farmer Partnership Work (DAR Adm. Order No. 9, s.
2006)
28. Mechanisms for implementing the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program
29. Conversion of Agricultural Lands
• CREBA vs. Secretary of Agrarian Reform (G.R. No. 183409)
• Sta. Rosa Realty vs. Canb (G.R. No. 112526)
• Ros vs. DAR (G.R. No. 132477)
• Chamber of Real Estate and Builders Associations, Inc. vs. Secretary of
Agrarian Reform (G.R. No. 183409)
• Fortich vs. Corona (G.R. No. 131457)
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 30. Financing the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program
31. Support Services for the farmers and landowners
32. Resolution of Agrarian Disputes
• Vda. de Tangub v. CA (UDK No. 9864)
• Sta. Rosa Realty Development Corporation v. Amante (G.R. No. 112526)
• DAR v. Cuenca (G.R. No. 154112)
• Cabral v. CA (G.R. No. 101974)
• Isidro v. CA (G.R. No. L-105586)
• Heirs of Herman Rey Santos v. CA (G.R. No. 109992)
• Sta. Ana v. Carpo (G.R. No. 164340)
• Laguna Estate v. CA (G.R. No. 119357)
• Alangilan v. Office of the President (G.R. No. 180471)
• Concha v. Rubio (G.R. No. 162446)
• Modes of appeal or review from the DARAB
• Authority of the DAR Secretary to nullify titles under the CARP
33. The Role of the Special Agrarian Courts in land valuation and penal provisions
• Philippine Veterans Bank vs. CA (G.R. No. 132767)
• Land Bank vs. Martinez (G.R. No. 169008)
• Land Bank vs. Cruz (G.R. No. 175175)
• Land Bank vs. Celada (G.R. No. 164876)
• Land Bank vs. CA (G.R. No. 128557)
• Land Bank vs. De Leon (G.R. No. 143275)

B. Tenant’s Emancipation Law

1. Phrases and Terms under P.D. No. 27

2. Tenants-Beneficiaries under P.D. No. 27
3. Maturity Date of LBP Bonds
4. Procedure in Case Landowner Refuses to Accept Payment
5. Effect of Failure to Pay Amortization
6. How Foreclosure May be Lifted
7. Sale of Lands Foreclosed under E.O. No. 228
8. Prior Notice of Sale
9. Affidavit Required to Voluntary Dealings
10. Status Quo Over Lands Covered by P.D. No. 27
11. Certificate of Land Transfer as Evidence of Ownership
12. Mechanics on Issuance of Emancipation Patent

II. Social Legislation

A. Overseas Maritime Labor (POEA Memorandum Circular No. 10, Series of 2010)

1. Disability Benefits
2. Remedies and Procedures
3. Cases:
• Vir-gen Shipping vs. NLRC (G.R. No. L-58011 & L-58012)
• Kerstel Shipping vs. Munar (G.R. Nos. 198501)
• Splash vs. Ruizo (G.R. No. 193628)
• Crystal Shipping, Inc. vs. Natividad (G.R. No. 154798)
• Vergara vs. Hammonia (G.R. No. 172933)
• HFS Philippines vs. Pilar (G.R. 168716)
• Iloreta vs. Philippine Transmarine (G.R. No.183908)
• Maersk. vs. Mesina (G.R. No. 200837)
• Philippine Hammonia Ship Agency, Inc. vs. Dumadag (G.R. No. 194362)
• Philman vs. Cabanban, (G.R. No. 186509)
• Alpha Ship Management Corporation, et al. vs. Calo (G.R. No. 192034)
• Racelis vs. UPL et al. (G.R. No. 198408)
• Fil-Pride Shipping vs. Balasta (G.R. No. 193047)
• Sealanes Marine Services vs. dela Torre (G.R. No. 214132)
• Eyana vs. PTC (G.R. No. 193468)
• PTC vs. Cristino (G.R. No. 18863)
• Carcedo vs. Maine Marine Philippines (G.R. No. 203804)
• Wallem vs. Quilao (G.R. No. 202885)
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 • C.F. Sharp Crew Management, Inc. v. Obligado (G.R. No. 192389)
• Maunlad vs. Camoral (G.R. No. 211454)
• Leonis Navigation Co., Inc. vs. Obrero (G.R. No. 192754)
• Magsaysay et al. vs. NLRC (G.R. No. 186180)
• Seagull Maritime Corp. vs. Jaycee Dee (G.R. No. 165156)
• Wallem vs. NLRC (G.R. No. 108433)
• The Conference of Maritime Manning Agencies vs. POEA (G.R. No. 11414)
• EMS Manpower vs. NLRC (G.R. No. 107723)
• Azarcon vs. Bunagan (G.R. No. 124611)
• Dumez Company of France vs. NLRC (G.R. No. 82340)
• OSM Shipping Phils. vs. NLRC (G.R. No. 138193)
• C.F. Sharp vs. Taok (G.R. No. 193679)

B. Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995 (R.A. No. 8042, as amended
by R.A. No. 10022 and R.A. No. 11227)

1. Definition of migrant worker

2. Deployment of migrant workers
3. Liability of the POEA Governing Board
4. Compulsory insurance coverage for agency-hired migrant workers
5. Disqualification
6. Coverage of the insurance
7. Repatriation of migrant workers
8. Emergency repatriation
9. Repatriation of underage migrant workers
10. Illegal recruitment
11. Syndicated illegal recruitment
12. Large-scale illegal recruitment
13. Economic sabotage
14. Filing of criminal complaint for illegal recruitment
15. Prescriptive period for filing of criminal complaint
16. Penalty for illegal recruitment
17. Jurisdiction of the POEA
18. Power of the POEA to order closure of establishment
19. Effect of closure order
20. Remedies from a closure order

C. Handbook for OFWs Act of 2018 (R.A. No. 11227)

1. Creating a Handbook for OFWs

2. Objectives of the Handbook
3. Amendments to R.A. No. 8042

D. Domestic Workers Act or Batas Kasambahay (R.A. No. 10361)

1. Applicability of the law

2. Meaning of domestic worker
• Apex Mining Co. v. NLRC (G.R. No. 94951)
• Barcenas v. NLRC (G.R. No. 87210)
3. Minimum age for employment of domestic worker
4. Hiring of domestic worker
5. Basic contents of employment contract
6. Registration of domestic workers
7. Terms and conditions of employment
8. Rights and privileges of domestic workers
9. Obligations of domestic workers
10. Araw ng mga kasambahay
11. Prohibited activities
12. Just causes for termination of employment by the domestic worker
13. Just causes for termination of employment by the employer
14. Certificate of Employment
15. Criminal Acts
16. Criminal Sanction
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E. Paternity Leave Act of 1996 (Republic Act No. 8187)

1. Meaning of paternity leave

2. Coverage of the law
3. Duration of the paternity leave
4. Conditions for entitlement to paternity leave
5. Penal Sanctions

F. Solo Parents’ Welfare Act of 2000 (R.A. No. 8972)

1. Definition of solo parent

2. Benefits available to a solo parent

G. Magna Carta for Persons with Disability (R.A. No. 7277, as amended by R.A. Nos.
9442, 10070, 10524 and 10754)

1. Definition of persons with disability

2. Rights and privileges of persons with disability
3. Prohibition on discrimination, ridicule, and vilification of persons with disability
4. Tax incentives for benefactors
5. Penal Sanctions

H. Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act

(R.A. No. 7610, as amended by R.A. Nos. 7658 and 9231)

1. Definition of children
2. Employment of children
3. Child abuse
4. Child trafficking
5. Other acts of child abuse
6. Filing of complaint
7. Confidentiality
8. Protection of children in situations of armed conflict
9. Children in conflict with the law
10. Procedure for taking the child in conflict with the law into custody
11. Treatment of children below the age of criminal responsibility
12. Petition for involuntary commitment
13. Detention pending trial
14. Automatic suspension of sentence
15. Execution of judgment

I. The Magna Carta of Women (R.A. No. 9710)

1. Rights of women
2. Sanctions
3. Aggravating circumstances

J. Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004 (R.A. No. 9262)

1. Violence against women and children

2. Remedies of victims of violence against women and children
3. Battered women syndrome
4. Venue of criminal action
5. Barangay Protection Order
6. Judicial Protection Order

K. Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003 (R.A. No. 9208, as amended by R.A. No.
10364)

1. Definition of trafficking in persons

2. Acts of trafficking in persons
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L. Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995 (R.A. No. 7877)

1. Definition of sexual harassment

• Floralde vs. CA (G.R. No. 123048)
• Philippine Aeolus Automotive vs. NLRC (G.R. No. 124617)
• Domingo vs. Rayala (G.R. No. 155831)
2. Act of sexual harassment
3. Places where sexual harassment can be committed
4. Obligations of employer or head of education or training institution
5. Liability of the employer, education or training institution
6. Penalties
• CSC v. Nierras (G.R. No. 165121)
• Villarama v. NLRC (G.R. No. 106341)

M. Senior Citizen Act (R.A. No. 7432, as amended by R.A. Nos. 9257, 9994 and 10645)

1. Definition of senior citizen

2. Privileges of senior citizens
3. Conditions for availment of privileges
4. Additional tax deduction for private entities that employ senior citizens
5. Criminal offenses and penalties
6. The Office of the Senior Citizens Affairs

N. Home Development Mutual Fund Law of 1980 (P.D. No. 1752, as amended by
R.A. No. 9679)

1. Objective of the law

2. Corporate entity
3. Coverage
4. Fund contributions
5. Term of membership
6. Housing features
7. Substitute retirement plan
8. Penal provisions

O. National Health Insurance Act of 1995 (R.A. No. 7875, as amended by R.A. Nos.
9241 and 10606)

1. Objective of the law

2. Coverage
3. Enrolment of beneficiaries
4. Premium contributions
5. Benefits under the National Health Insurance Program
6. Health services not covered by the National Health Insurance Program
7. Conditions for entitlement to benefits
8. Health care providers

P. Social Security Law (R.A. No. 1161, as amended by R.A. No. 8282)

1. Objective of the law

2. Compulsory coverage
3. Voluntary coverage
4. Employees not covered
5. Obligations of employer
6. Effect of non-reporting or non-remittance
7. Effect of failure to make timely remittance of contribution
8. Effect of interruption of business or professional income
9. Effect of separation from employment
10. Benefits

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Q. The Government Service Insurance System Act of 1997 (P.D. No. 1146, as
amended by R.A. No. 8291)

1. Compulsory coverage
2. Employees not subject to compulsory coverage
3. Separation from government service
4. Benefits

R. 105-Day Expanded Maternity Leave Law (R.A. No. 11210)

1. Declaration of Policy
2. Grant of Maternity Leave
3. Maternity Leave for Female Workers in the Public and Private Sectors
4. Allocation of Maternity Leave Credits
5. Maternity Leave for Women Regardless of Civil Status
6. Maternity Leave With Pay in Case of Childbirth, Miscarriage, or Emergency
Termination of Pregnancy After the Termination of an Employee’s Service
7. Maternity Leave Credits
8. Maternity Leave Benefits for Women in the Informal Economy and Voluntary
Contributors to the SSS
9. Maternity Leave Benefits for Female Workers Who are Non-Members of the SSS
10. Maternity Leave of a Female Worker With Pending Administrative Case
11. Maternity Leave for Female National Athletes
12. Non-Diminution of Benefits
13. Security of Tenure
14. Non-Discrimination
15. Periodic Review
16. Penalties

S. Anti-Age Discrimination in Employment Act (R.A. No. 10911)

1. Declaration of Policy
2. Definition of Terms
3. Prohibition of Discrimination in Employment on Account of Age
4. Exceptions
5. Penalty

T. Philippine HIV and AIDS Policy Act (R.A. No. 11166)

1. Declaration of Policies
2. Definition of Terms
3. Education in the Workplace
4. Education for Filipinos Going Abroad
5. Health and Support Services
6. Confidentiality
7. Discriminatory Acts and Practices and Corresponding Penalties