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MD Transit & Taxi Co., Inc., et al. vs. Francisco L. Estrella, et al.

MD TRANSIT & TAXI CO., INC., and CAM TRANSPORTATION CO., INC., petitioners, vs. HON. FRANCISCO L. ESTRELLA, MD-CAM LOCAL 3, represented by its President, ROMAN DOMASIG, and Sheriff ANTONIO P. SORIANO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-51479 | 1980-08-21

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

The background facts to this case have been aptly summarized in the "Memorandum for Public Respondents," thus:

"Pursuant to an order issued in NLRC Case Nos. 2399 and 3223 finding that petitioner companies have a capitalization of less than one million pesos, the latter paid the members of respondent union (MD-CAM LOCAL 3) P30.00 each per month as emergency cost-of-living allowance in accordance with P.D. 525.

"Having discovered later that petitioner's true and actual capitalization was more than one million pesos and that they should have paid their workers a monthly emergency allowance of P50.00...