Practice question
A payroll master processes already determined salaries and ordinary compensation data. The employer identifies no duty involving confidential labor-relations policy, negotiations or grievance strategy, but claims the payroll title and access to figures automatically require exclusion. Which follows San Miguel Foods?
- Every payroll position is automatically excluded.
- Any compensation figure conclusively establishes management strategy.
- The employee must prove that no document is ever private.
- The asserted automatic exclusion is unsound; the actual functions and labor-relations connection must be established.
- No payroll employee can ever be excluded regardless of duties.
Legal references
- San Miguel Corporation Supervisors and Exempt Union v Laguesma, G.R. 110399, August 15 1997, main opinion: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1997/aug1997/gr_110399_1997.html
- San Miguel Foods v SMC Supervisors and Exempt Union, G.R. 146206, August 1 2011, main opinion: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2011/aug2011/gr_146206_2011.html
- National Association of Trade Unions v Torres, G.R. 93468, December 29 1994, doctrine of necessary implication: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1994/dec1994/gr_93468_1994.html
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