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Liberty Flour Mills Employees etal vs. LFM Inc etal

LIBERTY FLOUR MILLS EMPLOYEES, ANTONIO EVARISTO and POLICARPIO BIASCAN, petitioners, vs. LIBERTY FLOUR MILLS, INC. PHILIPPINE ALLIANCE COUNCIL (PLAC) and NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, (NLRC), respondents.

G.R. Nos. 58768-70 | 1989-12-29

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

In this petition for certiorari, the resolution of the public respondent dated August 3, 1978, is faulted for: (a) affirming the decision of the labor arbiter dismissing the employees' claim for emergency allowance for lack of jurisdiction; and (b) modifying the said decision by disallowing the award of back wages to petitioners Policarpio Biascan and Antonio Evaristo.

The basic facts are as follows:

On February 6, 1974, respondent Philippine Labor Alliance Council (PLAC) and respondent Liberty Flour Mills, Inc. entered into a three-year collective bargaining agreement effective January 1, 1974, providing for...