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Leocito Pacana vs. Nat'l Labor Rel. Comm.

LEONCITO PACA?A, petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and PHILIPPINE PACKAGING CORPORATION, respondents.

G.R. No. 83513 | 1989-04-18

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

We affirm once again the rule that the decisions of the National Labor Relations Commission are reviewable only in a petition for certiorari under Rule 65 of the Rules of Court and may be reversed only upon a clear showing of a grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack of jurisdiction. Applying this rule, we shall dismiss this petition and uphold the challenged judgment of the public respondent as a proper exercise of the powers conferred upon it by the labor laws.

The petitioner had been in the employ of the Philippine Packing Corporation as a security guard or all of eighteen years when he was implicated...