The employer argued that the lumbar problem of the seafarer came from his previous employment, for which he had already claimed total and permanent disability benefits from his previous employer. Will this stand shield the employer from paying the seafarer’s total and permanent disability benefits?
Did the Supreme Court sustain the computation of separation pay and backwages of this employee who was illegally dismissed then rehired by the same employer?
The seafarer failed to observe the third-doctor referral provision in the POEA-SEC. Was her claim of total permanent disability benefit granted?
Can this validly-dismissed employee be awarded separation pay?
Can the employer refuse to implement its Local Policy relating to the minimum salary rates for regularized employees?
Find out why the Supreme Court did not believe the employer’s claim of voluntary resignation by the employee.
In justifying their act of blocking the gates of the employer, the strikers stated that they did so only for collective self-defense because the guards of the employer used unnecessary force in dispersing them. Was this justification accepted by the Court?
Can security of tenure be invoked by a person on the acts of a supposed landholder who had no right to the land subject of the tenancy?
Can an employer’s general return-to-work order be a defense against a claim of constructive dismissal?
The employee in this case resigned from employment. Can the employer enforce the “employment bond” provision in her employment contract?