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National Housing Corp. Vs. Benjamin Juco

NATIONAL HOUSING CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. BENJAMIN JUCO AND THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-64313 | 1985-01-17

D E C I S I O N
 
GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

Are employees of the National Housing Corporations (NHC) covered by the Labor Code or by laws and regulations governing the civil service?

The background facts of this case are stated in the respondent-appellee's brief as follows:

"The records reveal that private respondent (Benjamin C. Juco) was a project engineer of the National Housing Corporation (NHC) from November 16, 1970 to May 14, 1975. For having been implicated in a crime of theft and/or malversation of public funds involving 214 pieces of scrap G.I. pipes owned by the corporation which was allegedly committed on March 5, 1975....