Practice question
A company pays a clerk a fixed monthly salary for agreed employment services. It claims this cannot be a wage under Article 97(f) because it uses the word salary. Which response is correct?
- The label conclusively excludes the payment
- The definition may cover the remuneration notwithstanding the salary label and monthly computation
- The clerk must first become a manual laborer
- The payment is necessarily a loan
- The company may decide the statutory definition by changing payroll software
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html — Labor Code, Article 97(f), definition of wage.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2006/jun2006/gr_164772_2006.html — Equitable Banking Corporation v. Sadac, GR 164772, June 8, 2006, main decision; contextual wage/salary distinction.
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