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Brokenshire Hospital vs Nat'l Labor Rel. Comm etal

BROKENSHIRE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC., petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION AND THE BROKENSHIRE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS UNION-FFW, respondents.

G.R. No. L-69741 | 1986-08-19

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J:

Are employees in a private enterprise entitled to the so-called "13th month pay" prescribed by PD 851 "on top of bonuses" already being given by the employer prior to the decree's effectivity on December 16, 1975?

To this question, a negative answer has twice been given by this Court.

In National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) vs. Ovejera, promulgated on May 31, 1982 1 ---- where a collective bargaining agreement required the employer among others "to maintain the present practice on the grant of Christmas bonus, milling bonus and amelioration bonus" ("amounting to more than a month's pay") ---- this...