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PAL Supervisors' Association vs. Jimenez, et al.

PHILIPPINE AIR LINES SUPERVISORS' ASSOCIATION, known as "PALSA", petitioner, vs. ENRIQUE JIMENEZ, MARIANO AMPIL, JR. and PHILIPPINE AIR LINES EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, known as "PALEA", respondents. / PHILIPPINE AIR LINES, INC., petitioner, vs. THE COURT OF

G.R. No. L-26622 / No. L-26774 | 1974-05-31

D E C I S I O N

TEEHANKEE, J:

The Court holds that respondents attorneys union (PALEA), as plaintiffs below, simply because they secured in an earlier case a favorable judgment declaring Republic Act No. 1880 (imposing a forty-hour work week) to be applicable to respondent PAL as a government corporation and resulting in the payment of Saturday work backwages to all PAL employees regardless of their union or non-union affiliation, may not claim all other non-PALEA employees of PAL (who are members of another union of supervisors disqualified to join PALEA or are members of no union) to be equally liable for payment of 20% attorneys' fees...