Practice question
A hospital union undertakes a labor dispute affecting continued operations and says even emergency health personnel must be prevented from reaching patients to increase pressure. Assume no separate ground determines the dispute. Which statutory obligation applies regardless of its bargaining demands?
- Maintain the necessary effective skeletal workforce with unhampered and unrestricted movement and services
- Patient protection ends whenever a dispute begins
- Emergency staffing is categorically forbidden
- Only management’s preferred demands determine patient rights
- A strike vote repeals the hospital safeguard
Legal references
- Labor Code, Articles 259-260, 278-279 and 294 (formerly 248-249, 263-264 and 279), as applicable: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
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