Practice question
A detailed notice and adequate response time are provided. The employee gives a comprehensive written defense. No written hearing request, substantial factual dispute, applicable hearing rule or similar circumstance requiring one exists. Management evaluates the defense and serves a proper final notice. Is absence of a trial-like oral hearing alone necessarily a violation?
- No; meaningful written opportunity may suffice where no mandatory-hearing trigger exists
- Yes; a full trial is invariably mandatory
- Yes; written defenses never count
- Yes; only sworn courtroom testimony is permissible
- Yes; all workplace decisions require a judge
Legal references
- DO147-15 RuleI-A Sections5.1 and5.4–5.5: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/10/71535 Section5.1 service, representation and company-hearing rules.
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