eastern shipping lines v poea

When the conflicting interests of labor and capital are weighed on the scales of social justice, the
heavier influence of the latter must be counter-balanced by the sympathy and compassion the law must
accord the underprivileged worker. This is only fair if he is to be given the opportunity and the right to
assert and defend his cause not as a subordinate but as a peer of management, with which he can
negotiate on even plane. Labor is not a mere employee of capital but its active and equal partner.

Sosito v Aguinaldo Devt

While the Constitution is committed to the policy of social justice and the protection of the working
class, it should not be supposed that every labor dispute will be automatically decided in favor of labor.
Management also has its own rights, which, as such, are entitled to respect and enforcement in the
interest of simple fair play. Out of its concern for those with less privileges in life, this Court has inclined
more often than not toward the worker and upheld his cause in his conflicts with the employer. Such
favoritism, however, has not blinded us to the rule that justice is in every case for the deserving, to be
dispensed in the light of the established facts and the applicable law and doctrine (L-48926, December
14, 1987; 156 SCRA 392).

Ondoy vs. Ignacio
As between a laborer, usually poor and unlettered, and the employer, who has resources to secure able
legal advice, the law has reason to demand from the latter stricter compliance. Social justice in these
cases is not equality but protection

Article XII, Section 4 of the Constitution provides that the State shall, by law, undertake an agrarian
reform program founded on the right of farmers and regular farm workers, who are landless, to own
directly or collectively the lands they till or, in the case of other farm workers, to receive a just share of
the fruits thereof.State of Agrarian Reform

Agricultural Land Reform Code the ACA was established, among other governmental agencies,
1
to
extend credit and similar assistance to agriculture, in pursuance of the policy enunciated in Section 2 as
follows
SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. It is the policy of the State:
(1) To establish owner-cultivatorships and the economic family-size farm as the basis of
Philippine agriculture and, as a consequence, divert landlord capital in agriculture to
industrial development;
(2) To achieve a dignified existence for the small farmers free from pernicious institutional
restraints and practices;
(3) To create a truly viable social and economic structure in agriculture conducive to greater
productivity and higher farm incomes;
(4) To apply all labor laws equally and without discrimination to both industrial and
agricultural wage earners;
(5) To provide a more vigorous and systematic land resettlement program and public land
distribution; and
(6) To make the small farmers more independent, self-reliant and responsible citizens, and
a source of genuine strength in our democratic society.
Sec 2 State Policies
Section 9. The State shall promote a just and dynamic social order that will ensure the prosperity
and independence of the nation and free the people from poverty through policies that provide
adequate social services, promote full employment, a rising standard of living, and an improved
quality of life for all.
Section 10. The State shall promote social justice in all phases of national development.
Section 11. The State values the dignity of every human person and guarantees full respect for
human rights.
Sec 13 AGRARIAN AND NATURAL RESOURCES REFORM
Section 2. The promotion of social justice shall include the commitment to create economic
opportunities based on freedom of initiative and self-reliance.
Section 4. The State shall, by law, undertake an agrarian reform program founded on the
right of farmers and regular farmworkers who are landless, to own directly or collectively the
lands they till or, in the case of other farmworkers, to receive a just share of the fruits
thereof. To this end, the State shall encourage and undertake the just distribution of all
agricultural lands, subject to such priorities and reasonable retention limits as the Congress
may prescribe, taking into account ecological, developmental, or equity considerations, and
subject to the payment of just compensation. In determining retention limits, the State shall
respect the right of small landowners. The State shall further provide incentives for
voluntary land-sharing.
Section 5. The State shall recognize the right of farmers, farmworkers, and landowners, as
well as cooperatives, and other independent farmers' organizations to participate in the
planning, organization, and management of the program, and shall provide support to
agriculture through appropriate technology and research, and adequate financial,
production, marketing, and other support services.
Section 6. The State shall apply the principles of agrarian reform or stewardship, whenever
applicable in accordance with law, in the disposition or utilization of other natural resources,
including lands of the public domain under lease or concession suitable to agriculture,
subject to prior rights, homestead rights of small settlers, and the rights of indigenous
communities to their ancestral lands. The State may resettle landless farmers and
farmworkers in its own agricultural estates which shall be distributed to them in the manner
provided by law.
Section 7. The State shall protect the rights of subsistence fishermen, especially of local
communities, to the preferential use of the communal marine and fishing resources, both
inland and offshore. It shall provide support to such fishermen through appropriate
technology and research, adequate financial, production, and marketing assistance, and
other services. The State shall also protect, develop, and conserve such resources. The
protection shall extend to offshore fishing grounds of subsistence fishermen against foreign
intrusion. Fishworkers shall receive a just share from their labor in the utilization of marine
and fishing resources.
Section 8. The State shall provide incentives to landowners to invest the proceeds of the
agrarian reform program to promote industrialization, employment creation, and
privatization of public sector enterprises. Financial instruments used as payment for their
lands shall be honored as equity in enterprises of their choice.

URBAN LAND REFORM AND HOUSING
Section 9. The State shall, by law, and for the common good, undertake, in cooperation
with the private sector, a continuing program of urban land reform and housing which will
make available at affordable cost, decent housing and basic services to under-privileged
and homeless citizens in urban centers and resettlement areas. It shall also promote
adequate employment opportunities to such citizens. In the implementation of such program
the State shall respect the rights of small property owners.
Section 10. Urban or rural poor dwellers shall not be evicted nor their dwelling demolished,
except in accordance with law and in a just and humane manner.
No resettlement of urban or rural dwellers shall be undertaken without adequate
consultation with them and the communities where they are to be relocated.
HEALTH
Section 11. The State shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to health
development which shall endeavor to make essential goods, health and other social
services available to all the people at affordable cost. There shall be priority for the needs of
the under-privileged, sick, elderly, disabled, women, and children. The State shall endeavor
to provide free medical care to paupers.