The foreign employer relied on its country’s HIV policy when it terminated the employee’s job. Was the employer able to successfully defend itself from the employee’s illegal dismissal complaint?
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In this case, find out why an illegal dismissal complaint cannot be classified like an ordinary civil action insofar as the effect of death of any of the parties is concerned.
When the status of the employment is in dispute, the employer bears the burden to prove that the workers are independent contractors rather than regular employees.
The employer claimed that it dismissed its employee for just cause because the latter assaulted a co-employee within company premises. Did the Supreme Court agree with the employer’s claim?
Can a contractor be declared legitimate based solely on the doctrine of stare decisis?
Was the GOCC in this case justified in suspending the implementation of the increases of salary and benefits in the renegotiated CBA?
In its appeal, the employer in this case asserted that it was neither given summons relating to the employee’s amended complaint, nor notified of the scheduled hearings before the Office of the Labor Arbiter. Should it be allowed to present countervailing evidence on appeal?
The employer mentioned that an order of dismissal was issued by the POEA in a case filed by the employees against it. Should such order bind the Labor Arbiter when it rules on the complaint for illegal dismissal filed by said employees against the same employer?
The complainant presented pay slips and trip itineraries to support his assertion that he was an employee of the company. Were these sufficient to declare the company as his employer?
