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Mindanao university ordered to close law programs

  The Legal Education Board (LEB) has ordered the Mindanao State University to close its law programs in all its campuses starting academic year 2025-2026 after it approved a resolution canceling MSU’s accreditation. The order stemmed from MSU’s refusal to recognize LEB’s supervisory authority and for asserting that it is not bound by the board’s orders, policies and guidelines on legal education. “The MSU is no longer authorized to offer the basic law program in the country,”  the LEB said. The board made permanent the cease and desist order it issued against MSU’s extension law programs on its campuses in Tawi-Tawi, Sulu and Maguindanao. It expressed concern over what it described as MSU’s “dismal” performance in the Bar examinations, noting the school’s passing rate since 2013 has been below the national passing percentage. Reacting to the LEB’s resolution, the MSU said it would continue to operate in accordance with its chapter passed by Congress in 1955. “The LEB cannot act no

SC - An employee who is paid solely on commission can still be classified as a regular employee

 


Genon averred that he worked as a truck driver for Dynamiq, a hauling business, from September 10, 2009 until he resigned on June 3, 2014.

 

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ISSUE


The fundamental issue that the Court must resolve is whether Genon is a regular employee entitled to 13th month pay


SC RULING 


Although Genon was paid on a commission basis, he is a regular employee. It should be remembered that a regular status of employment is not based on how the salary is paid to an employee.


 An employee may be paid purely on commission and still be considered a regular employee. As a regular employee, Genon is entitled to receive 13th month pay.


"[A]n employee who has resigned, or whose services were terminated at any time before the payment of the 13th month pay, is entitled to this monetary benefit in proportion to the length of time [they] worked during the year, reckoned from the time [they] started working during the calendar year up to the time of [their] resignation or termination from the service."


FINAL WORD 

"The supremacy of the law over the nomenclature of the contract and its pacts and conditions is to bring life to the policy enshrined in the Constitution to afford full protection to labor. Thus, labor contracts are placed on a higher plane than ordinary contracts since these are imbued with public interest and, therefore, subject to the police power of the State."

FOOTNOTES 

[ G.R. No. 239349, June 28, 2021 ] DYNAMIQ MULTI-RESOURCES, INC., PETITIONER, VS. ORLANDO D. GENON, RESPONDENT.

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