Practice question
A caregiver already enjoys a higher agreed salary and better benefits than the new statutory minima. The employer announces that RA 11965 requires reducing everything to the minimum and substitutes a lower package. Which is the best response?
- The new law requires every better benefit to be removed
- The nondiminution provisions protect better existing terms; compliance with minima is not authority to reduce them
- The employer may reduce benefits whenever it uses a new contract template
- The higher terms disappear if recruitment was through an agency
- Only benefits paid in foreign currency are protected
Legal references
- https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/96878 — RA 11965, sections 3–5 and 8–16.
- https://www.alburolaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/052125-DO-254-25-Implementing-Rules-and-Regulations-of-RA-No.-11965-or-the-Caregivers-Welfare-Act.pdf — issued DO 254-25 scan, Rule I section 3; Rule IV sections 1–3, caregiver rights, compensation, and duties.
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