Dismissal due to serious illness
Dear PAO,My husband suffered some sort of depression and was advised to seek medical advice by the company. At the company's expense, he was referred to several doctors to assess his mental condition. Accordingly, the psychiatric report diagnosed him to be suffering from Schizophrenia, which is incurable within a period of six months. I fear that he will be fired because of this.
'Consistent with this construction, we applied this provision in resolving illegal dismissal cases due to non-contagious diseases such as stroke, heart attack, osteoarthritis, and eye cataract, among others. In Baby Bus, Inc. v. Minister of Labor, we upheld the labor arbitration finding that Jacinto Mangalino continued employment after he suffered several strokes would be prejudicial to his health. In Duterte v. Kingswood Trading Co., Inc.
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