CHARLITO PEÑARANDA VS.

BAGANGA PLYWOOD CORPORATION AND HUDSON CHUA

[ G.R. NO. 159577, May 03, 2006]

The Implementing Rules of the Labor Code state that managerial employees are those who meet
the following conditions:

"(1) Their primary duty consists of the management of the establishment in which they are
employed or of a department or subdivision thereof;

"(2) They customarily and regularly direct the work of two or more employees therein;

"(3) They have the authority to hire or fire other employees of lower rank; or their suggestions
and recommendations as to the hiring and firing and as to the promotion or any other change of
status of other employees are given particular weight."

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TRADE UNIONS (NATU) - REPUBLIC PLANTERS BANK

SUPERVISORS CHAPTER VS. HON. RUBEN D. TORRES, SECRETARY OF LABOR AND
EMPLOYMENT AND REPUBLIC PLANTERS BANK
[ G.R. No. 93468, December 29, 1994]

Art. 212, par. (m), of the Labor Code is explicit. A managerial employee is (a) one who is vested
with powers or prerogatives to lay down and execute management policies, or to hire, transfer,
suspend, lay off, recall, discharge, assign or discipline employees; or (b) one who is vested with
both powers or prerogatives.

JENNIFER C. LAGAHIT VS. PACIFIC CONCORD CONTAINER LINES/MONETTE CUENCA

(BRANCH MANAGER)
[ G.R. No. 177680, January 13, 2016]

There are two classes of employees vested with trust and confidence. To the first class belong
the managerial employees or those vested with the powers or prerogatives to lay down
management policies and to hire, transfer, suspend, lay-off, recall, discharge, assign or discipline
employees or effectively recommend such managerial actions.

PHILIPPINE APPLIANCE CORPORATION, (PHILACOR) VS. THE HON. BIENVENIDO E.

LAGUESMA, IN HIS CAPACITY AS UNDERSECRETARY OF LABOR & EMPLOYMENT,
GENUINE LABOR ORGANIZATION OF WORKERS IN HOTEL, RESTAURANT & ALLIED
INDUSTRIES, (GLOWHRAIN) AND THE HONORABLE BERNARDINO B. JULVE IN HIS
CAPACITY AS DIRECTOR IV, DOLE REGIONAL OFFICE, NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
(NCR)
[ G.R. No. 105223, September 27, 1993]

The Labor Code was further amended by Republic Act No. 6715. Section 4 of the said Republic
Act, amended Article 212 (m), which now contains separate definitions for managerial and
supervisory employees, to wit,

"Art. 212. Definitions.

xxx xxx xxx

(m) Managerial employee is one who is vested with powers or prerogatives to lay down and
execute management policies and/or to hire, transfer, suspend, lay-off, recall, discharge, assign
or discipline employees. Supervisory employees are those who, in the interest of the employer,
effectively recommend such managerial actions if the exercise of such authority is not merely
routinary or clerical in nature but requires the use of independent judgment. xxx"