Practice question
A lawful wage order expressly provides one rate for covered non-agricultural establishments and another for a specified agricultural category. A payroll officer applies the first rate to everyone solely because it is larger. What must be checked?
- Whether the payroll officer personally likes farming
- Only the employer’s preferred figure
- Only the employee’s home province regardless of the order
- The assumption that all classifications are invalid
- The worker’s actual covered category under the order
Legal references
- Labor Code, Articles 95, 113-115 and 123-124: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
- RA 6727, amended Labor Code Articles 123-124: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1989/ra_6727_1989.html
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