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St. Joseph College vs St. Joseph College Workers' Association

ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, Petitioner, versus ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE WORKERS' ASSOCIATION (SAMAHAN), Respondent.

G.R. No. 155609 | 2005-01-17



THIRD DIVISION
D E C I S I O N 

PANGANIBAN, J.: 

The law allows an increase in school tuition fees on the condition that 70 percent of the increase shall go to the payment of personnel benefits. Plainly unsupported by the law or jurisprudence is petitioner's contention that the payment of such benefits should be based not only on the rate of tuition fee increases, but also on other factors like the decrease in the number of enrollees; the number of those exempt from paying the fees, like scholars; the number of dropouts who, as such, do not pay the whole fees; and the bad debts incurred by the school. The financial dilemma of...