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Firestone & Rubber vs. Carlos Lariosa

FIRESTONE TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. CARLOS LARIOSA and NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-70479 | 1987-02-27

D E C I S I O N


FERNAN, J.:

In this petition for certiorari, petitioner Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of the Philippines [Firestone for brevity] assails the decision of public respondent National Labor Relations Commission which ordered the reinstatement without backwages of Carlos Lariosa, a dismissed tire builder of petitioner, as having been rendered with grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack of jurisdiction.

The facts are as follows:

Carlos Lariosa started working with Firestone on January 3, 1972 as a factory worker. At the time of his dismissal, he was a tire builder.

At around 2:00 o'clock in the afternoon of July 27,1983,...