Check whether the employer’s denial of contract substitution was given credence by the Supreme Court.
Can the employer in this case be said to have waived its right to deny liability from paying disability benefits?
A labor contractor’s Certificate of Registration with the Department of Labor and Employment is not conclusive evidence of its status as a legitimate labor contracting entity. At most, it causes a disputable presumption that the entity is a legitimate labor contractor which can be refuted by other evidence. In order to determine whether an entity is a labor-only contractor or a legitimate labor contractor, what must be considered is the totality of the facts and surrounding circumstances of the case.
The employer posited that backwages are awarded only to an illegally dismissed employee. Did the Supreme Court sustain this position?
The accused pointed out that the POEA certification (which the trial court relied on in convicting him of the crime of illegal recruitment in large scale) was not authenticated in court by its signatory. Was this sufficient to overturn his conviction for the crime?
Note the principal test to determine whether a person is a project employee.
Learn whether the car plan provided by the employer had ripened into company practice.
Did the employer discharge the burden of proving the validity of the employee’s dismissal from employment?
Was the employee’s experience burdensome enough to make her tenure unbearable?
Find out why the SC ruled the dismissal of the employer’s appeal to be erroneous despite the showing of a failure to post an appeal bond.