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Government Service Insurance System Vs. Civil Service Commission, Et Al.

GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM (GSIS), petitioner, vs. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, HEIRS OF ELIZAR NAMUCO, and HEIRS OF EUSEBIO MANUEL, respondents. Benigno M. Puno for private respondents. Fetalino, Llamas-Villanueva and Noro for CSC.

G.R. No. 96938 | 1991-10-15

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

In May, 1981, the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) dismissed six (6) employees as being "notoriously undesirable," they having allegedly been found to be connected with irregularities in the canvass of supplies and materials. The dismissal was based on Article IX, Presidential Decree No. 807 (Civil Service Law) 1 in relation to LOI 14-A and/or LOI No. 72. The employees' Motion for Reconsideration was subsequently denied.

Five of these six dismissed employees appealed to the Merit Systems Board. The Board found the dismissals to be illegal because effected without formal charges having been filed...