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Bernito Morales Vs. National Labor Relations Commission, Et Al.

BERNITO MORALES, petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, ROSARIO GEROCHE, AND/OR GEROCHE SCHOOL BUS, respondents.

G.R. No. 91501 | 1990-08-02

D E C I S I O N


GANCAYCO, J.:

In this case petitioner questions the failure of public respondent to order his reinstatement despite the finding of illegal dismissal as well as the correctness of the other awards.

Petitioner was hired on May 2, 1984 as a conductor of the school buses owned and operated by private respondent. On February 12, 1987, while petitioner was working inside the garage compound, a backward-moving bus accidentally hit him, fracturing his thigh bone. The injury incapacitated petitioner from work for almost eight (8) months.

Having recuperated in the early part of December, 1987, petitioner reported back for work,...