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d. Employment- all terms, conditions, privileges relating to work in
public and private institutions, including recruitment policies, application
procedures, training, incentives, compensation, determination of benefits or
allowances, promotion, advancement opportunities, transfer, and dismissal.
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Tills definition shall apply to regular, probationary, casual, contractual,
fixed-term, and seasonal workers. In legitimate contracting arrangements, the
contractor/subcontractor shall be deemed the employer of the contractual
employee.
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e. G ender Identity- the personal sense of identity or expression as
characterized, among others, by manners of clothing, inclinations, and
behaviour in relation to masculine or feminine conventions. As person may
have a male or female identity with the physiological characteristics of the
opposite sex.
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f. G ender Expression- the outw ard manifestations of the cultural traits
that enable a person to identify as male or female according to patterns that, at
a particular moment in history, a given society defines as gender appropriate.
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g. HIV Status- the presence or absence of
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the body of an individual.
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h. Indigenous Peoples- a group of people or homogenous societies
identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously
lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory,
and who have, under claims of ownership since time immemorial, occupied,
possessed and utilize such territories, sharing common bonds of language,
customs, traditions and other distinctive cultural traits, or who have, through
resistance to political, social and cultural inroads of colonization,
nonindigenous religions and cultures, became historically differentiated from
the majority of Filipinos.
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Indigenous Peoples shall likewise include peoples who are regarded as
indigenous on account of their descent from the populations which inhabited
the country^ at the time of conquest or colonization, or at the time of inroads
of nonindigenous religions and cultures, or the establishment of present state
boundaries, who retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and
political institutions, but who may have been displaced from their traditional
domains or who may have resettled outside their ancestral domains;
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i. Profiling- relying on the prohibited grounds of discrimination in
subjecting a person or group of persons to investigatory activities, which
include unnecessary, unjustified, illegal, and degrading searches, questioning
or other investigatory activities, in determining whether an individual is
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