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Community Sawmill Co., vs. Court of Industrial Relations, et al

COMMUNITY SAWMILL COMPANY, petitioner, vs. COURT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, and COMMUNITY EFFORT LABOR UNION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-24347 | 1979-03-27

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

This is a petition for certiorari to review an order of the Court of Industrial Relations, denying a motion for the reopening of a case wherein petitioner company as respondent was required to pay the total amount of P128,920.50 by way of back wages. 1 Petitioner would seek a reduction if its liability for such payment on the ground that its responsibility to pay compensation ought to have ceased as far back as November 30, 1967, when it closed shop. If indeed there was such an arbitrary disregard of such a fact, then there is plausibility to its contention that the assailed order could be stigmatized as a...