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MAI Phil., Inc. vs. Nat'l Labor Rel. Comm. Etal.

MAI PHILIPPINES, INC., petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, and RODOLFO NOLASCO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-73662 | 1987-06-18

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

In this case, the act of an employer ---- in professing inability and thus failing to comply with the direction in a final and executory judgment to reinstate an employee held to have been illegally dismissed, and offering instead to give separation pay in accordance with law ---- was deemed by the National Labor Relations Commission to have given rise to a cause of action entirely distinct from that upon which original judgment had been rendered. What is worse, the Commission not only allowed the filing and prosecution of a subsequent separate action by the employee for the recovery of back wages under the...