Practice question
A DOLE memorandum only assigns inspectors among internal office desks and creates no new public duty. A challenger treats it as a substantive employer regulation solely because DOLE issued it. What should be examined?
- Whether every employer signed it
- Only the letterhead color
- The assumption that all memoranda are identical
- The proposition that no internal instructions are permitted
- Its actual internal character and effect
Legal references
- Labor Code, Articles 4-5: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
- Tañada v. Tuvera, G.R. No. L-63915, December 29, 1986, MAIN resolution: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1986/dec1986/gr_l-63915_1986.html
- Executive Order No. 200, June 18, 1987, amending Civil Code Article 2: https://lawphil.net/executive/execord/eo1987/eo_200_1987.html
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