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e. Employment refers to all terms conditions, and privileges relating to work in
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public and private institutions, including recruitment policies, application,
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procedures, training, incentives, compensation, determination of benefits or
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allowances, promotion, advancement opportunities, transfer, and dismissal.
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This definition shall apply to regular, probationary, casual, contractual,
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fixed-term, and seasonal workers. In legitimate contracting arrangements, the
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contractor/subcontractor shall be deemed the employer of the contractual
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employee.
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For
the
purpose
of
this
Act,
the
terms employment
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and occupation include access to vocational training, access to em ployment
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and to particular occupations, and terms and conditions of employment.
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f.
Gender Ide ntity refers to each person's deeply felt internal and individual
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experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex
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assigned at birth (e.g. the sex listed on their birth certificate) including the
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personal sense of the body and other expressions o f gender, including dress,
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speech and mannerisms.
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g. Gender Expression refers to the outward manifestations of the cultural traits
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that enable a person to identify as male or female according to patters that,
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at a particular moment in history, a given society defines as gender
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appropriate.
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h. H IV Status refers to the presence or absence of the human immunodeficiency
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virus (HIV) in the body of an individual.
i.
Indigenous Cultural Communities/ Indigenous Peoples (ICC/IPs)shall, as
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provided under Section 3 (h). Chapter II of Republic Act No. 8371 or the
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Indigenous People's Rights Act (IPRA) of 1997, refer to a group of people or
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homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by others,
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who
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bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims o f ownership
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since time immemorial, occupied, possessed and utilized such territories,
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sharing common bonds of language, customs, traditions and other distinctive
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cultural traits, or who have, through resistance to political, social and cultural
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inroads of colonization,
have continuously
lived
as organized community on communally
non-indigenous religions and cultures,
became