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Practice question: Transfer of Employees

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

An employment agreement includes a mobility clause allowing assignments among company branches. May that clause alone validate a transfer made as a proven bad-faith punishment without sufficient cause?
  1. Yes, the clause waives all employee rights
  2. No, contractual mobility remains subject to legal and good-faith limits
  3. Yes, if management uses the clause’s exact wording
  4. Yes, if the employee signed many years earlier
  5. No, because mobility clauses are categorically void

Legal references

  • https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2010/oct2010/gr_163091_2010.html — Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc. v. Del Villar, GR 163091, October 6, 2010, main decision; legitimate transfers, demotion, and employer proof.

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