An Act Prohibiting the Dismissal of Any Employee or Laborer for Refusing or Failing to Vote for Any Candidate of His Employer, Amending for the Purpose the Revised Election Code
Year:
1968
Category:
Other
Date Approved:
June 15, 1968
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This law prohibits the dismissal of any employee or laborer for refusing or failing to vote for any candidate of their employer. It amends the Revised Election Code to ensure that employees who are dismissed under these circumstances are reinstated and compensated for lost wages.Full Text
REPUBLIC ACT No. 5218
An Act Prohibiting the Dismissal of Any Employee or Laborer for Refusing or Failing to Vote for Any Candidate of His Employer, Amending for the Purpose the Revised Election Code
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:
Section 1. Republic Act Numbered One hundred and eighty, otherwise as the Revised Election Code, is hereby amended by inserting between Sections fifty-six, and fifty-seven thereof the following new section:
Section 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: June 15, 1968.
"Sec. 56-A. Prohibiting dismissal of employees or laborers.— No employee or laborer shall be dismissed for refusing or failing to vote for any candidate of his employer. Any employee or laborer so dismissed shall be reinstated and the salary or wage of the employee or laborer shall be given to the aggrieved party.
"Violation of this section shall be punished in accordance with Section one hundred eighty-five."
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