Practice question
A worker’s bona fide wage complaint is dismissed on the merits. The contractor then expressly cuts wages solely as punishment for having filed it. Does the adverse result alone permit that retaliation?
- Yes, the employer may privately impose any penalty
- Yes, every unsuccessful complaint authorizes punishment
- Yes, dismissal automatically forfeits all future wages
- Yes, only winning litigants retain employment protection
- No
Legal references
- Labor Code, Articles 118 and 295 (formerly 280): https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
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