Practice question
After a woman takes lawful expanded maternity leave, the employer returns her to a nominally parallel post but reduces rank, status and salary solely because she used the leave. It calls the change a permissible reassignment. Which is correct under RA 11210?
- Any reassignment label validates any reduction.
- Maternity leave automatically ends the employee's old rights.
- Only the title, not actual rank and salary, matters.
- The employee must accept demotion as the price of leave.
- Section 15 permits only the qualified parallel transfer and does not authorize the stated leave-based demotion or reductions.
Legal references
- RA 11210 Sections 3,15–16, expanded maternity leave and nondiscrimination: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra 2019/ra_11210_2019.html — Section 15.
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