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Practice question: Wage Distortion

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A lawful wage order raises a lower grade from 600 to 650 while the next grade remains at 650, eliminating an intentional skill-based differential. What issue should be examined?
  1. Only the employees’ commuting costs
  2. Whether the higher grade dislikes the lower grade
  3. Whether all wages can be withheld
  4. Whether the prescribed increase caused statutory wage distortion
  5. Whether the corporation needs a new name

Legal references

  • Labor Code, Article 124, as amended by RA6727: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1989/ra_6727_1989.html

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