Philippine Law Updates

FRANCHESKA ALEEN BALABA BUBAN, PETITIONER, VS. NILO DELA PEÑA,* RESPONDENT. [ G.R. No. 268399, January 24, 2024 ]

Season 2 Episode 7

"A dismissed employee is entitled to moral damages when the dismissal is attended by bad faith or fraud or constitutes an act oppressive to labor, or is done in a manner contrary to good morals, good customs or public policy." Bad faith connotes a dishonest purpose or some moral obliquity and conscious doing of a wrong, or a breach of a known duty through some motive or interest or ill will that partakes of the nature of fraud.