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Practice question: Conciliation-Mediation; Preventive Mediation

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Practice question

Is a covered voluntary compromise assisted by the appropriate DOLE office necessarily open to relitigation merely because a party later regrets it?
  1. Yes; regret alone always erases a binding compromise.
  2. Only the employer may decide whether it remains binding.
  3. No.
  4. Every compromise is automatically void.
  5. No settlement can ever involve labor standards.

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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