Practice question
A mobile employee’s actual hours are reasonably ascertainable through mandatory dispatch records, route checks and return reporting. The employer invokes the SIL field-personnel exclusion solely because no supervisor sits beside the worker all day. Other eligibility conditions are met. What matters?
- Only constant side-by-side supervision can defeat the exclusion
- The actual ascertainability and supervision arrangement, not continuous physical accompaniment alone
- Every mobile employee is automatically exempt
- Every dispatch record proves independence
- The employee’s job title controls despite the facts
Legal references
- Labor Code, Articles 95, 113-115 and 123-124: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
- Omnibus Rules Implementing the Labor Code, Book III, Rule V and Rule VIII, Section 14: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442a_1974.html
- Auto Bus Transport Systems, Inc. v. Bautista, G.R. No. 156367, May 16, 2005, MAIN decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2005/may2005/gr_156367_2005.html
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