Supreme Court dismissed overtime claim; employer denied overtime work, so lump sum diet was not overtime pay.

The Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeal filed by an employer against a lower court ruling awarding employees overtime pay. The employees had been seconded abroad for periods where they worked full-time, but the employer consistently argued that no overtime work occurred because local laws prohibited it and the tasks did not require extra hours. The court held that for a lump sum to qualify as an overtime allowance under the Labor Code, the employer must have foreseen and accepted overtime work; since the employer denied such necessity, the increased diet was not an overtime payment.