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Practice question: Persons with Disability (RA 7277, as amended by RA 10524)

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

A manager needs to know that a worker requires a modified schedule and a lifting restriction. HR says Section 33 allows only two extremes: total secrecy or circulation of the complete diagnostic file. Which is best?
  1. The statute permits the necessary restriction-and-accommodation information while retaining confidentiality of other details.
  2. Only complete public disclosure is lawful.
  3. Every accommodation must be refused to preserve secrecy.
  4. Any need for information abolishes separate files.
  5. Only unrelated coworkers may receive it.

Legal references

  • RA 7277 Section 33, employment entrance examinations and confidential records: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1992/ra_7277_1992.html

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