Practice question
A worker has protected existing benefits from a company policy and valid agreement. An administrator treats RA 7699’s unitary-system objective as authority to erase them without any separate lawful basis. Does the Act’s policy override its express savings clause?
- Yes, a policy objective automatically repeals every agreement
- No; Section 5 expressly preserves the stated existing benefits against reduction by this Act
- Yes, all existing benefits disappear upon totalization
- Yes, company practices are expressly excluded from protection
- Yes, no separate authority is ever needed to reduce benefits
Legal references
- RA 7699, Sections 2-6: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1994/ra_7699_1994.html
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