Practice question
A school’s old plan covers regular full-time staff. It later offers early retirement on stated age-and-service conditions to a broader qualifying group. A part-time fixed-term coach accepts and meets those conditions. On facts matching Cabrido, is the old classification restriction alone decisive against the later agreement?
- No; the accepted later offer must be given its proper contractual effect
- Yes, a later agreement can never change any benefit arrangement
- Yes, part-time status eliminates contractual capacity
- Yes, fixed-term personnel cannot have enforceable benefits
- Yes, only the school’s later private intention governs
Legal references
- Labor Code, Articles 118 and 295 (formerly 280): https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
- Mendaros v. Lazada E-Services Phil., Inc., G.R. No. 257821, August 19, 2024, MAIN decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2024/aug2024/gr_257821_2024.html
- International School Manila v. Cabrido, G.R. No. 275832, July 29, 2025, MAIN decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2025/jul2025/gr_275832_2025.html
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