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Benguet Corporation Vs. National Labor Relations Commission, Et Al.

BENGUET CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION (FOURTH DIVISION) AND PABLO CORALIS, respondents.

G.R. No. 84974 | 1992-05-08

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, C.J.:

Private respondent Pablo Coralis, employed as a miner by petitioner Benguet Corporation since July 6, 1976, was dismissed by the latter on December 3, 1984 for "highgrading," or theft of gold ore. According to the notice of dismissal, 1 on November 13, 1984, he had been caught, red-handed as it were, while picking out and collecting pieces of high-grade ore inside a stope (excavation) in his employer's Acupan Mines in Itogon, Benguet, which was not his assigned workplace. He had signed a statement admitting his guilt in the investigation conducted on the same day. 2

Three weeks later, on December 28,...