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Vallum Security Services, Et Al. Vs. National Labor Relations Commission, Et Al.

VALLUM SECURITY SERVICES and BAGUIO LEISURE CORPORATION (HYATT TERRACES BAGUIO), petitioners, vs. THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, RUBEN ABELLERA, MANUEL GANANCIAL, SAMSON ALEJERA, ROMEO BAUTISTA, CARLOS BANIAGO, GABRIEL CABASAL, ARTEMIO CARINO, BENJAMIN LARON, SANTIAGO PACULAN, FRANCISCO OBEDOZA, CEFERINO GARCIA, ARNOLD PAMINLAN, ROMAN PALIMA, JOSEFINO LOZANO, PEDRO DULAY, JR., CLAUDIO PANGANIBAN, RONNIE BALDERAS, AVELINO PINTO, BEN ENRIQUE ESTOCAPIO, ESABELITO ANGARA, ROBERT AGUIMBAG, WILSON ESTAVILLO, FELIXBERTO NARVASA, PABLITO ROSARIO, EDGAR PALISOC, DONIE PERALTA, WILLY QUESADA, MARIO URBANO, EDWIN JACOB, JOSE VIRGILIO LUSTERIO, MA. NESTOR LABADOR, ROMEO LOPEZ, MANOLO MAGAT, MARIANO MARCENA, WILSON MUNAR, ROSEMARIE DUMLAO, FLORENTINO CASTANEDA, RUBEN PANTERIA, JOHNNY VILLANUEVA, DELIA ROSARIO, GARY JAVATE, DEAN PASAMIC, VALERIE BRIONES, NEMENCIO CUTCHON, PHILIP MORIS, VINCENT NOEL CABRERA and JAIME GIMENO, respondents.

G.R. Nos. 97320-27 | 1993-07-30

D E C I S I O N


FELICIANO, J.:

On 1 September 1986, petitioner Baguio Leisure Corporation (Hyatt Terraces Baguio) ("Hyatt Baguio") and petitioner Vallum Security Services ("Vallum") entered into a contract for security services under the terms of which Vallum agreed to protect the properties and premises of Hyatt Baguio by providing fifty (50) security guards, on a 24-hour basis, a day.

On 1 June 1988, Heinrich L. Maulbecker, Hyatt Baguio's General Manager, wrote to Domingo A. Inocentes, President of Vallum advising that effective 1 July 1988, the contract of security service would be terminated.

Vallum informed Mr. Maulbecker, on 22...