Practice question
A company hires a sales employee for a complex new product, discloses no specific regularization standard at engagement, and later imposes a new numerical target as the sole dismissal basis. No self-descriptive-job or other exception is established. It argues the probation label alone defeats tenure. Under Aliling, which is correct?
- The label does not cure the missing timely standards or eliminate the worker’s tenure protection
- Any probation label authorizes every later target retroactively
- The worker automatically accepted all unknown targets
- The employer need not establish a lawful termination basis
- Only regular employees may ever invoke the Constitution
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html ArticleXIII Section3.
- Aliling v Feliciano GR185829 April25,2012 MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2012/apr2012/gr_185829_2012.html Probationary tenure and standards at engagement.
- Agabon v NLRC GR158693 November17,2004 MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2004/nov2004/gr_158693_2004.html Valid just cause distinguished from procedural violation.
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