THE Supreme Court (SC) has resolved issues on whether the government’s share in Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) contributions for contractual employees can be validly sourced from the 20-percent premium pay given to such employees, in lieu of leave benefits.

In a ruling penned by Junior Associate Justice Francis Jardeleza, the SC’s Third Division dismissed a petition filed by the GSIS “on the ground of forum shopping, with a warning to the [agency] that a repetition of the same or similar acts in the future shall be dealt with more severely.”

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