Authorized Causes (DO 147, s. 2015)

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1. Which circumstance is an authorized cause rather than an employee-fault just cause?
2. What does redundancy mean under DO 147-15?
3. For a valid termination due to redundancy, what is the statutory minimum separation-pay formula under DO 147-15?
4. A validly redundant employee earns PHP 40,000 monthly and has six years and seven months of service. No more favorable …
5. An employer invokes retrenchment based solely on an unsupported statement that next year might be less profitable. It o…
6. A company proposes disease-based termination. Its private clinic says the condition should be controlled within four mo…
7. A business genuinely closes for non-loss-related commercial reasons. Its good-faith cessation and the absence of anothe…
8. An employer abolishes several posts as redundant and sends proper advance notices and separation pay. Its only explanat…
9. A company predicts a major imminent loss and considers retrenchment before the loss actually occurs. State whether anti…
10. An employee is terminated because of disease. Management cites a private physician’s note and argues that separation pa…
11. What causal circumstance defines installation of labor-saving devices as an authorized cause?
12. Does labor-saving-device termination require fair and reasonable employee-selection criteria?