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Boie-Takeda Chemicals, Inc. Vs. Dionisio C. De La Serna / Phil Fuji Xerox vs Trajano & Fuji Xerox Union

BOIE-TAKEDA CHEMICALS, INC., petitioner, vs. HON. DIONISIO C. DE LA SERNA, Acting Secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment, respondent.

G.R. No. 92174 | 1993-12-10

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

What item or items of employee remuneration should go into the computation of thirteenth month pay is the basic issue presented in these consolidated petitions. Otherwise stated, the question is whether or not the respondent labor officials in computing said benefit, committed "grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack of jurisdiction," by giving effect to Section 5 of the Revised Guidelines on the Implementation of the Thirteenth Month Pay (Presidential Decree No. 851) promulgated by then Secretary of Labor and Employment, Hon. Franklin Drilon, and overruling petitioners' contention that said provision...