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Pagdonsalan, Corazon R. vs. National Labor Relations Commission, et al.

CORAZON R. PAGDONSALAN, petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and GILMART INDUSTRIES, PHIL., respondents.

G.R. No. L-63701 | 1984-01-31

D E C I S I O N


ESCOLIN, J.:

We set aside the questioned resolution of respondent NLRC which dismissed the petitioner's appeal on the sole ground that the latter failed to furnish respondent employer with a copy of her appeal memorandum. We also reverse the appealed decision rendered by Labor Arbiter Ricarte T. Soriano, dated April 27, 1981.

Petitioner was employed by respondent Gilmart Industries Phil. as machine operator from April 4, 1956 up to 1958 when a union strike was declared causing the temporary closure of the company. Upon resumption of the company's operations sometime in 1959, petitioner was employed anew as a...