- Statute
- Labor Code
- Article
- Art. 306
- Topic
- Three-year prescriptive period for money claims
- Formerly
- Art. 291
- Year
- 1974
The provision
ARTICLE 291. Money claims. All money claims arising from employer-employee relations accruing during the effectivity of this Code shall be filed within three (3) years from the time the cause of action accrued; otherwise they shall be forever barred. All money claims accruing prior to the effectivity of this Code shall be filed with the appropriate entities established under this Code within one (1) year from the date of effectivity, and shall be processed or determined in accordance with the implementing rules and regulations of the Code; otherwise, they shall be forever barred. Workmens compensation claims accruing prior to the effectivity of this Code and during the period from November 1, 1974 up to December 31, 1974, shall be filed with the appropriate regional offices of the Department of Labor not later than March 31, 1975; otherwise, they shall forever be barred. The claims shall be processed and adjudicated in accordance with the law and rules at the time their causes of action accrued.
Key points
Article 291 (renumbered Article 306) sets the prescriptive period for money claims. All money claims arising from employer-employee relations accruing during the effectivity of the Code must be filed within three years from the time the cause of action accrued; otherwise they are forever barred.
The provision is the limitations rule for wage, benefit, and similar monetary claims in labor cases, and is distinct from the four-year period applied to illegal-dismissal (reinstatement and backwages) claims, which rest on an injury to rights under the Civil Code. It is read with the Labor Code's rules on enforcement of monetary awards.
Cases applying this article
- EIE Mart Korean Grocery v. Mente G.R. No. 207094