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Practice question: Payment of Wages

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

Force majeure makes direct payment to an employee impossible. An unrelated person asks to collect without written worker authority, relying only on the emergency. What does Article105 require for the invoked representative-payment exception?
  1. Written authority from the worker for that purpose
  2. Emergency alone authorizes any claimant
  3. The employer’s preference replaces worker authority
  4. A customer’s verbal approval is sufficient
  5. A stranger’s identity card alone establishes entitlement

Legal references

  • Labor Code Articles84,88,101–105: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html Articles104–105, place and authorized recipients.

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