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Gold City Integrated Port Services Vs. National Labor Relations Commission

GOLD CITY INTEGRATED PORT SERVICES, INC. (INPORT), petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION (NLRC) and JOSE L. BACALSO, respondents.

G.R. No. 86000 | 1990-09-21

D E C I S I O N


FELICIANO, J.:

Private respondent Jose Bacalso was employed as an admeasurer by the petitioner Gold City Integrated Port Services, Inc. ("Gold City"). He was suspected by management of undermeasuring cargo. Hence, on 23 January 1987, the cargo control officer ordered two (2) other admeasurers to re-measure three (3) pallets of bananas which had already been measured by private respondent. 1 The re-measurement revealed that respondent had under-measured the bananas by 1.427 cubic meters. 2

Private respondent felt insulted by the re-measurement and so the next day he went to the office of the Chief Admeasurer, Rolando...