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Indemnity
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- Under Agabon, what is the purpose of nominal damages when a valid just-cause dismissal violates statutory due process?
- What nominal-damages amount did the Agabon main decision impose on each employee for its established statutory due-proc…
- What nominal-damages amount did the Jaka main decision impose on each employee for its authorized-cause notice violatio…
- A private employer proves a valid just cause but omits the required statutory notices. Under Agabon, does that procedur…
- A company establishes an authorized termination cause but fails to give the required notices. It argues that a manageme…
- An employer proves neither a just nor an authorized cause for dismissal. It offers PHP 30,000, arguing that Agabon allo…
- A worker is validly dismissed for an established just cause but denied the required notices. The employer owes proven h…
- Explain the substantive-cause and procedural-compliance distinction in Agabon.
- Compare Agabon and Jaka on procedural indemnity. State the amounts fixed in their main decisions and explain the distin…
- Distinguish procedural nominal damages from backwages and from earned benefits already due before dismissal.
- Must a worker prove an exact pecuniary loss equal to nominal damages before a violated right can be vindicated?
- Do nominal damages principally vindicate a violated right rather than compensate a proven monetary loss?