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Baliwag Transit, Inc. vs. Blas F. Ople, etal.

BALIWAG TRANSIT, INC., petitioner, vs. HON. BLAS F. OPLE, Minister of Labor and Employment, and ROMEO HUGHES, respondents.

G.R. No. 57642 | 1989-03-16

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

Even before security of tenure for the laborer was dignified into a constitutional right in 1973, it was already recognized as one of the great guarantees of the worker against arbitrary dismissal by his employer. Pursuant to the social justice policy, the government has consistently emphasized and strengthened this right, which in a less enlightened age not far from ours was scornfully dismissed as an unspeakable heresy.

This is not to say that once invoked, the right is automatically granted because of our compassionate concern for the worker. That is not exactly correct. While security of tenure stands...