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Pantranco North Express, Inc. vs NLRC, et al.

PANTRANCO NORTH EXPRESS, INC., petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and URBANO SU?IGA, respondents.

G.R. No. 95940 | 1996-07-24

PANGANIBAN, J.:


Is a Collective Bargaining Agreement provision allowing compulsory retirement before age 60 but after twenty five years of service legal and enforceable? Who has jurisdiction over a case involving such a question the labor arbiter or arbitrators authorized by such CBA?

The foregoing questions are presented in the instant petition for Certiorari seeking the nullification of the Resolution 1 promulgated September 28, 1990 by the National Labor Relations Commission 2 in an illegal dismissal case brought by private respondent. In its assailed Resolution, the public respondent affirmed the decision of the Labor Arbiter...