Philippine Bar review · Question

Practice question: Illness and HIV Status (DO 73, s. 2005; DA 05, s. 2010; RA 11166, Sec. 49)

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

May an employer impose compulsory HIV testing merely as its own ordinary job-entry condition, without an applicable statutory exception?
  1. Yes; a company rule creates an exception.
  2. Yes; every applicant automatically consents.
  3. Yes; testing is compulsory for all employment.
  4. No; the Act protects voluntary informed testing and confines compulsory testing to specified statutory instances.
  5. Only if the employer pays for the test.

Legal references

  • RA 11166 Sections 29–31,44–45,49: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra 2018/ra_11166_2018.html

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