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KanoTech Foods, Inc., a manufacturing plant with 520 rank-and-file employees represented by a certified union, announces a major relocation of the finishing and packaging operations to a satellite facility within the same campus along with a restructuring of shifts and installation of new automation. To implement the changes during an anticipated labor action, management locks out the entire plant for 7 days. The workers allege the lockout is punitive and retaliatory for a planned wage-and-benefits strike and file a complaint with the NLRC for unfair labor practices. (a) Identify the legally relevant actors and determine whether the employer’s act constitutes a lockout. (b) State the controlling rule on legitimate lockouts in the Philippines and how it is tested in practice. (c) Apply the rule to this scenario and decide whether the lockout is lawful or unlawful, and outline the remedies available to the workers if it is unlawful.