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Question XXIII
XXIII. Luningning Foods engaged the services of Lamitan Manpower, Inc., a bona fide independent contractor, to provide "tasters" that will check on food quality. Subsequently, these "tasters" joined the union of rank -and-file employees of Luningning and demanded that they be made regular employees of the latter as they are performing functions necessary and desirable to operate the company’s business. Luningning rejected the demand for regularization. On behalf of the "tasters", the union then filed a notice of strike with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). In response, Luningning sought a restraining order from the Regional Trial Court (RTC) arguing that the DOLE does not have jurisdiction over t he case since it does not have an employer-employee relationship with the employees of an independent contractor. If you were the RTC judge, would you issue a restraining order against the union? (4%)
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