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An underground mining employee upon reaching the age of fifty (50) years or
more, but not beyond sixty (60) years which is hereby declared the compulsory
retirement age for underground mine workers, who has served at least five (5) years
as underground mine worker, may retire and shall be entitled to all the retirement
benefits provided for in this Article.

Retail, service and agricultural establishments or operations employing not more
than ten (10) employees or workers are exempted from the coverage of this
provision.

Violation of this provision is hereby declared unlawful and subject to the penal
provisions under Article 288 of this Code.

Nothing in this Article shall deprive any employee of benefits to which he may
be entitled under existing laws or company policies or practices.

Book Seven TRANSITORY AND FINAL PROVISIONS

Title I PENAL PROVISIONS AND LIABILITIES

ART. 303. [288] Penalties. 229 Except as otherwise provided in this Code, or
unless the acts complained of hinge on a question of interpretation or
implementation of ambiguous provisions of an existing collective bargaining
agreement, any violation of the provisions of this Code declared to be unlawful or
penal in nature shall be punished with a fine of not less than One Thousand Pesos
(P1,000.00) nor more than Ten Thousand Pesos (P10,000.00), or imprisonment of not
less than three months nor more than three years, or both such fine and
imprisonment at the discretion of the court.

In addition to such penalty, any alien found guilty shall be summarily deported
upon completion of service of sentence.

Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, any criminal offense
punished in this Code shall be under the concurrent jurisdiction of the Municipal or
City Courts and the Courts of First Instance.

ART. 304. [289] Who are Liable When Committed by Other Than Natural
Person. If the offense is committed by a corporation, trust, firm, partnership,
association or any other entity, the penalty shall be imposed upon the guilty officer
or officers of such corporation, trust, firm, partnership, association or entity.

229 As amended by Sec. 3 of B.P. Blg. 70 (1980).

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