Practice question
In the confidential-employee organizing cases, what does necessary implication permit?
- Every employer to invent new union prohibitions
- Recognition of implications necessary to effectuate the statute's purpose, including the established confidential-employee exclusion
- Disregard of the statute whenever convenient
- Automatic exclusion of everyone with any workplace secret
- Automatic conversion of supervisors into managers
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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