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Lepanto Consolidated Mining Co. Vs. Ricardo Q. Encarnacion, et al.

LEPANTO CONSOLIDATED MINING COMPANY, petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE LABOR ARBITER RICARDO Q. ENCARNACION, AND EUFRONIO OMANITO, ELPIDIO ANCHETA, RODOLFO PALITOG, SATURNINO ANTES, NARCISO PASITENG, ROGELIO ABUAN, SAMUEL DAW-AS, DARWIN SAPINO, EDUARDO LINO, DONALD MALINIAS, JOSE DIMINO, JAMES DACWAG, ALBERTO VICENTE, ARMANDO REYES, FLORO GOMEZ, FELIX SOLOMON, and DAVID BUCAO, respondents.

G.R. Nos. L-67002-03 | 1985-04-30

R E S O L U T I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

The private respondents were employed by petitioner Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company for its Tubo Shaft Project. After almost three years of construction work in the said project the petitioner terminated their services, alleging that they were project workers and their phase of the project had been completed.

Sometime in December, 1974, the private respondents filed complaints for illegal dismissal. After due proceedings, Labor Arbiter Julio Andres, Jr., rendered a decision dated December 11, 1975, ordering the reinstatement of the private respondents to their former positions without loss of...