Practice question
Under Article 294, the ordinary reinstatement remedy for an unjustly dismissed regular employee preserves which rights?
- Only a new applicant's chance to compete.
- Only the employer's preferred hiring date.
- Only the job title, with all prior service erased.
- Seniority rights and other privileges.
- Only benefits earned after an entirely new hiring.
Legal references
- https://library.laborlaw.ph/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2022.Labor_.Code_.DOLE-edition.pdf — Labor Code Articles 229 [223] and 294 [279].
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2021/aug2021/gr_235358_2021.html — Padsing v. Lepanto Consolidated Mining Co., G.R.235358, August4 2021, main opinion on reinstatement and proved strained relations.
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