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The employee here is the cashier of a bookstore whom we shall call Delia.
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Backwages

By POINT OF LAW By Emiterio C. Manibog, Jr. | July 11, 2006 - 12:00am

The law guarantees the right of employees to security of tenure. This means that an employee may not be dismissed from his employment except for just or authorized causes under the Labor Code and only after observance...

Business

Compensated even without working

By A LAW EACH DAY (KEEPS TROUBLE AWAY) | By Jose C. Sison | October 10, 2002 - 12:00am

In contemplation of law, an employee illegally dismissed is deemed to have never left his office. So he should be granted compensation which rightfully belongs to him from the moment he was unduly deprived of it....

Opinion

Compensating a wrong act - A Law Each Day (Keeps Trouble Away)

By A LAW EACH DAY (KEEPS TROUBLE AWAY) | By Jose C. Sison | February 25, 2000 - 12:00am

If an employee is illegally dismissed, he is entitled to backwages, and separation pay, if reinstatement is no longer feasible. How much should the backwages and separation pay be? This is answered in this case...

Opinion

The worker, not the work - A Law Each Day (Keeps Trouble Away)

By A LAW EACH DAY (KEEPS TROUBLE AWAY) | By Jose C. Sison | February 2, 2000 - 12:00am

This is another case of a punishment not commensurate with the infraction committed by an employee. The employee here is the cashier of a bookstore whom we shall call Delia.

Opinion