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Practice question: Conciliation-Mediation; Preventive Mediation

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Practice question

A covered assisted compromise requires payment by a specified date, but the obligor fails to comply. It invokes finality to argue that no competent body may ever address noncompliance. Which is sound?
  1. Finality automatically authorizes breach.
  2. The statute expressly preserves noncompliance as an exception to the stated jurisdictional bar.
  3. An unpaid obligation is conclusively paid by signing.
  4. The obligee loses every enforcement route.
  5. A settlement’s due date can never matter.

Legal references

  • Labor Code, as amended, Articles 233 [227], 239 [233] and 292(b) [277(b)]: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html

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