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Restituto C. Palomado vs NLRC 257 SCRA 680

RESTITUTO C. PALOMADO, petitioner,vs.NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, MARLING RICE MILL and/or MARIO TAN TENG KUAN and ROLANDO TAN, respondents.

G.R. No. 96520 | 1996-06-28

THIRD DIVISION
DECISION
 
PANGANIBAN, J.:

In this Decision, this Court reiterates some well-entrenched doctrines in labor cases, like (1) the appropriate remedy to challenge rulings of the NLRC is a petition for certiorari under Rule 65, not a petition for review under Rule 45 or 43; (2) a motion for reconsideration is an essential prerequisite to certiorari; (3) only questions relating to jurisdiction or grave abuse of discretion -- not ordinary errors of law -- are reviewable on certiorari; (4) hence, findings of facts of the NLRC are generally accorded great respect, even finality; (5) the law grants the labor arbiter wide latitude to...