Practice question
After workers win reinstatement, management alone subjects that group to a new packaging target requiring output beyond the capacity of their assigned worn equipment. Other comparable workers have no such target. Internal messages show a plan to make the reinstated workers fail. Management invokes prerogative. Which is the best analysis?
- The word quota validates the arrangement regardless of purpose
- The evidence indicates bad-faith, rights-defeating use rather than a valid productivity standard
- Reinstatement permanently exempts workers from every legitimate standard
- The workers must meet any impossible number to retain legal protection
- A handbook automatically cures the documented purpose
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2020/jun2020/gr_222289_2020.html — East Cam Tech Corporation v. Fernandez, GR 222289, June 8, 2020, main decision; attainable quotas and good faith.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2012/apr2012/gr_185829_2012.html — Aliling v. Feliciano, GR 185829, April 25, 2012, main decision; productivity standards and employer’s burden.
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