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Bautista, Rolando , et al. Vs. National Seamen Board, et al.

ROLANDO BAUTISTA and ANTHONY FERIDO, petitioners, vs. NATIONAL SEAMEN BOARD, WALLEM PHILIPPINES SHIPPING, INC., and GREG NACIONAL, respondents.

G.R. No. L-48196 | 1982-11-02

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

The petitioners allege that the respondent National Seamen Board acted with grave abuse of discretion when it dismissed their complaint for backwages and other monetary benefits which they claimed had accrued from the time of the allegedly illegal termination of their employment up to the expiration dates of their contracts.

The background facts and the basis of the petitioners' complaint are summarized in the May 30, 1977 decision of the secretariat of the National Seamen Board as follows:

" . . . Complainant Ferido was contracted by the respondent on 21 August 1975 as a carpenter on board the...