What effect does a sale of agricultural land have on a landowner’s retention right?
Learn why the Supreme Court rejected the employer’s contention that supervening events prevented it from reinstating its employee.
In appeals of illegal dismissal cases, employers are strictly mandated to file an appeal bond to perfect their appeals. Substantial compliance, however, may merit liberality in its application.
Although employers have the inherent right to discipline their employees, the penalties imposed must be commensurate to the infractions committed. Dismissal of employees for minor and negligible offenses may be considered as illegal dismissal.
The employer’s redundancy program was found to be valid and the employer was not found to have committed unfair labor practice. Learn why the employer was still held liable for separation pay and backwages for the dismissed employees.
In justifying dismissal, the employer claimed that the employee posed a clear and existing danger to the safety of the crew or vessel. Was this claim proven?
Will an employee’s premarital relations with her boyfriend and the resulting pregnancy out of wedlock constitute immorality that could be a just cause for dismissal?
Was the agreement between the parties in this case allowed under Presidential Decree No. 27?
The employer argued that it should not be held liable for legal interest because the employees themselves partly caused the delay in the satisfaction of the decision. Did the Supreme Court accept this argument?
In a situation where the seafarer’s illness was disputably presumed to be work-related, is the seafarer no longer required to prove that his illness was caused by (or at least aggravated by) his work?