Practice question
A departing employee has a genuinely disputed laptop accountability. HR invokes Milan to withhold both contested terminal payments and the requested truthful certificate until the property dispute ends. Which is best?
- Milan’s accountability reasoning does not erase the advisory’s separate duty to issue the certificate within three days of request.
- Every property dispute suspends all certificate obligations indefinitely.
- A certificate is the company’s security deposit.
- Milan automatically repealed the later advisory.
- Only a court may confirm the employee ever worked there.
Legal references
- DOLE Labor Advisory 06-2020, January 31, 2020, Sections I-IV, archived original signed DOLE PDF: https://web.archive.org/web/20220809160012id_/https://www.dole.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Labor-Advisory-No.-06-20-Guidelines-on-the-Payment-of-Final-Pay-and-Issuance-of-Certificate-of-Emplo.pdf
- DOLE official January 2026 explanation of Labor Advisory 06-2020, COE and final pay: https://dole.gov.ph/news/final-pay-coe-must-be-released-on-time-dole/
- Milan v. NLRC, G.R. No. 202961, February 4, 2015, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2015/feb2015/gr_202961_2015.html
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