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Practice question: Security of Tenure (Art. XIII)

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Practice question

A company admits dismissing a regular employee and offers only that it wants a younger-looking staff. It identifies no lawful ground. Which tenure assessment follows?
  1. Payment of a day's wages supplies sufficient cause.
  2. Admission of dismissal eliminates the need for justification.
  3. The employee's regular status permits dismissal at will.
  4. The unexplained preference does not itself establish a lawful termination ground.
  5. Only union officers possess tenure.

Legal references

  • 1987 Constitution Article XIII Section 3: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
  • Labor Code Article 294 [279], official DOLE renumbered edition: https://dole.gov.ph/book-6-post-employment/

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