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La Mallorca vs. Workmen's Compensation Commission, Et Al

LA MALLORCA (Operator of La Mallorca Taxi), petitioner, vs. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION and BALBINO ZUNIGA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-29315 | 1969-11-28

D E C I S I O N 


FERNANDO, J.: 

This Court has not been reticent in its expression of sympathy that must be accorded to claims by injured employees or by his heirs in case of death under the Workmen's Compensation Act. 1 Thereby, in this sphere, the constitutional principle of social justice and the mandate of protection to labor is further vitalized. 2 Every once in a while, then, there is a reminder to management that fidelity to such a policy embodied in the fundamental law as well as to its statutory implementation requires a minimum of resistance to such efforts on the part of labor to have its rights respected, except in the...