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Diony Rapiz, Et Al. Vs. National Labor Relations Commission, Et Al.

DIONY RAPIZ, NELSON GESTOPA & ANATALIO ONA, petitioners, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and MODERN ASIA SHIPPING CORPORATION, respondents.

G.R. No. 91122 | 1992-03-16

D E C I S I O N


PARAS, J.:

Petitioner are seamen who are seeking the reinstatement of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration decision dated April 14, 1988, which was reversed by the National Labor Relations Commission's split resolution * dated September 29, 1989.

The facts of the case are as follows:

Sometime in June of 1983, a giant corporation Modern Asia Corporation, hired some thirteen (13) Filipino seamen (among them, herein petitioners), who boarded the vessel named M/V Mighty Sea which is of Panamian registry.
However, on March 15, 1984, in an emergency letter they wrote the Minister of National Defense,...