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Ilocos Sur Electric Cooperative, Inc., Et Al. Vs. National Labor Relations Commission, Et Al.

ILOCOS SUR ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC. and EFREN BAUTISTA. petitioners, vs. THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and the NLRC REGIONAL ARBITRATORS, BRANCH NO. I, (San Fernando, La Union) respondents.

G.R. No. 106161 | 1995-02-01

D E C I S I O N


KAPUNAN, J.:

This is a petition for certiorari questioning the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Commission over termination cases involving employees of electric cooperatives.

Briefly, the facts of the case are as follows:

Engr. Egdon Sabio was employed as Manager of the Engineering Department of Ilocos Sur Electric Cooperative (ISECO), herein petitioner, in May 1982. He was relieved of his duties on June 10, 1989 and was dismissed on July 1, 1989 pursuant to ISECO's Board Resolution No. 63 s. 1989 dated July 19, 1989.

It appears that on June 8, 1989, Sabio wrote to the ISECO Board of Directors, thru its...