Practice question
An employer tenders a protected conciliation statement as the sole evidence of a contested fact before the Commission and argues that the Bureau’s public filing functions remove every privilege. What is the flaw?
- Every public filing function repeals all privileges
- The specific conciliation-communication protection is distinct from the Bureau’s publication and filing functions
- All conciliation statements are automatically binding judgments
- Only the employer’s view determines admissibility
- Failure to settle authorizes unrestricted evidentiary use
Legal references
- Labor Code, former Articles 229, 231 and 233, Bureau subpoena, publication and conciliation-privilege provisions: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
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