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Practice question: Productivity Standards

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

May an employer prescribe legitimate productivity standards?
  1. No, production targets are prohibited in every case
  2. Yes, as an exercise of management prerogative subject to good faith and applicable rights
  3. Yes, with no legal limits of any kind
  4. Only if every target is fixed by a criminal court
  5. Only if the company has no employees

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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