The respondent in a complaint for illegal dismissal pointed out that a different person was the employer of the complainant. Did the Supreme Court uphold respondent’s claim?
Find out why the Supreme Court declared the illegality of the employee’s dismissal from employment despite the employer’s notice to the DOLE and the employee.
Relief for Illegally Dismissed Migrant Workers
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?
Is the Labor Arbiter in the illegal dismissal case bound by the ruling of the Med-Arbiter regarding the existence or non-existence of employer-employee relationship between the parties in the certification election case?
