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Practice question: Attorney’s Fees

Multiple Choice Easy Jurisprudence

Practice question

Which employer payment is expressly prohibited by Article 259(h)?
  1. Payment of ordinary wages to a union member.
  2. Payment of a lawful contractual wage increase.
  3. Payment of negotiation or attorney's fees to the union or its officers or agents as part of settling a bargaining issue or other dispute.
  4. Remittance of a lawfully authorized employee check-off.
  5. Payment of a supplier's unrelated invoice.

Legal references

  • https://library.laborlaw.ph/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2022.Labor_.Code_.DOLE-edition.pdf — Labor Code Arts. 228(b) [222(b)], 250(n)–(o) [241(n)–(o)], 259(h) [248(h)] and 260(e) [249(e)].
  • https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/49401 — Mariño v. Gamilla, G.R. 149763, July 7, 2009, main decision.

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