Practice question
An employer makes a definite early-retirement offer to qualifying personnel, and a fixed-term employee who satisfies its terms accepts. The employer then relies only on the fixed-term label to deny that any retirement agreement can exist. What does Cabrido indicate?
- Retirement agreements are always oral promises without effect
- Fixed-term status automatically nullifies every accepted offer
- Only the old plan can ever matter
- No employee may accept an employer’s benefit offer
- The accepted offer and its terms must be examined as a possible governing agreement
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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