Practice question
A worker receives six months of genuine payroll-reinstatement salaries under the governing favorable ruling. The employer later obtains reversal and claims unjust enrichment solely because its appeal succeeded. No fraud, overpayment or independent restitution ground is alleged. What does Wenphil’s rule support?
- No reimbursement of those reinstatement salaries solely on the basis of reversal
- Automatic reimbursement with a penalty
- Treating every interim salary as an unsecured loan
- Erasing the interim statutory relief retroactively
- Requiring repayment because the worker was paid monthly
Legal references
- Wenphil Corporation v. Abing, GR 207983, April 7, 2014, main decision, reinstatement salaries: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2014/apr2014/gr_207983_2014.html
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