INTL SCHOOL ALLIANCE OF EDUCATORS (ISAE) v.

QUISUMBING
January 31, 2013 Leave a comment
FACTS: Petitioners work under private respondent International
School. The school hires both local and foreign hires. Foreign hires
are granted with more benefits and higher salary. Respondent
says this is because of dislocation factor and limited tenure.
Petitioners contested the difference in salary rates between
foreign and local hires. They claim that it is discriminatory to
Filipinos and it constitutes racial discrimination.
HELD: There is violation of equal protection. Equal pay for equal
work, persons who work with substantially equal qualifications,
skillsm effort, and responsibility under similar conditions should
be paid similar salaries. If an employer accords the same rank and
position, the presumption is that they perform equal work. Here,
both groups have similar functions which they perform under
similar conditions. There is no evidence that foreign hires perform
25% more efficient than local hires. The dislocation factor and
tenure are properly accorded by the benefits they received.
Likewise,
in International School Alliance of Educators v. Quisumbing, G.R. No.
128845,
June 1, 2000, it was held that there was no reasonable distinction
between the
services rendered by foreign hires" and local hires as to justify the
disparity in
salaries paid to these teachers.