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Practice question: Mandatory Provisions

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Practice question

The parties negotiate a proportionate cost-sharing formula other than equal halves. A negotiator objects solely that the Code always requires fifty-fifty sharing. Which is best?
  1. Every unequal allocation is automatically forbidden by its express text.
  2. The Code requires all fees to be paid by outsiders.
  3. No negotiated allocation can ever operate.
  4. The fee must always equal one month of the CEO’s salary.
  5. That asserted universal numerical rule is not stated in Article 277.

Legal references

  • Labor Code, as amended, Articles 258 [247], 259 [248], 260 [249], 273 [260] and 277 [262-B]: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html

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