Practice question
Management invokes an earlier case involving selective denial of lunch breaks as if it conclusively invalidated a uniform revised schedule. What does Sime Darby require?
- Assume an older case automatically decides all future facts
- Treat every lunch-related case as identical
- Ignore whether workers are similarly situated
- Assume every schedule is illegal
- Distinguish the actual discrimination issue from the different scheduling facts
Legal references
- Sime Darby Pilipinas v. NLRC, GR 119205, April 15, 1998, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1998/apr1998/gr_119205_1998.html
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