In the Philippines, Employee Discipline is one of the rights an investor or capitalist can use to ensure a profitable operations.

“Success of industries is the foundation upon Which just wages may be paid. There can be no success without efficiency. There can not be efficiency without discipline…”

Batangas Transportation Co., et al vs. Bagong Pagkakaisa ng mga employees and Laborers of BTCo., GR No. L-1706 March 10, 1949

However, this management right is not absolute and managment is equally obliged to observe another right. And these are the rights of an employee to a security of tenure and due process.

“The state affords the constitutional blanket of rendering protection to labor but it also protect the right of employers to exercise what are clearly management prerogatives, so long as the exercise is without abuse of discretion.”

Pantranco North Express vs. NLRC GR No. 106516, Sept. 21, 1999.

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