Practice question
Employees prove that a lawful benefit ripened into company practice. The employer argues that the benefit is unprotected solely because no handbook records it. Which conclusion follows from Arco Metal?
- An established qualifying practice can be protected even without that particular written handbook provision.
- Only benefits written in a handbook can ever be protected.
- Oral or practical conduct is never relevant.
- The absence of a handbook automatically proves payroll error.
- Employees must own company shares to invoke the principle.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html — Labor Code, Article 100.
- https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/45241 — Arco Metal Products Co., Inc. v. SAMARM-NAFLU, GR 170734, May 14, 2008, main decision.
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