DOLE Issuances

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1. What is the basic source of DOLE’s authority to issue rules implementing the Labor Code?
2. If an implementing labor regulation directly contradicts its enabling statute, which controls?
3. Does issuing a departmental rule authorize DOLE to abridge or expand a statute beyond its delegated terms?
4. A statute covers workers in categories A and B. An implementing order, without statutory authority for an exemption, ex…
5. A DOLE issuance prescribes a reporting form to administer a statutory labor requirement. The form stays within delegate…
6. A labor statute fixes a mandatory entitlement for covered employees. An agency order replaces it with a smaller entitle…
7. DOLE issues two measures under a labor statute. The first supplies a lawful inspection form; the second invents a new s…
8. Explain why DOLE implementing rules are relevant legal sources but subordinate to statutes.
9. An implementing order creates an exemption directly contrary to an express statutory coverage rule. Explain the governi…
10. Distinguish a valid implementation detail from an administrative amendment of a labor statute.
11. Under Tañada, must a legislative administrative rule implementing delegated law be published, as distinguished from a m…
12. Does Tañada require publication of a rule that is genuinely only internal, governing agency personnel assignments and n…