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Preventing access to workplace counts as 'illegal dismissal' - SC
Business World Philippines
|September 25, 2025
THE Supreme Court (SC) ruled that preventing employees from reporting to work without a valid reason constitutes illegal dismissal.
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In a 12-page decision promulgated on May 19 and made public on Wednesday, the SC’s Second Division, through Senior Associate Justice Marvic M.V.F. Leonen, upheld a labor arbiter’s finding that 12 workers of a printing company were unlawfully terminated.
The printing company, which produces packaging materials for consumer goods, had engaged the workers as sorters and packers on a pakyaw or piece-rate basis.
This story is from the September 25, 2025 edition of Business World Philippines.
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