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Unican Workers Union-CLUP, et al. vs NLRC, et al.

UNICANE WORKERS UNION-CLUP AND ITS MEMBERS, petitioners, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, UNICANE FOOD PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING CORPORATION and its owner-manager, BENIDO ANG, respondents.

G.R. No. 107545 | 1996-09-09

PANGANIBAN, J.:


In an appeal of a monetary award granted by the labor arbiter, may the appellant postpone the filing of the appeal bond until after the NLRC has recomputed the said award? May such an award, assuming it has become final, be subsequently made the subject of a compromise agreement (quitclaim and release) to the prejudice of the worker-claimants?

The foregoing and related questions are taken up by this Court is resolving this petition for certiorari which assails the Decision 1 promulgated August 19, 1992 of the National Labor Relations Commission in NLRC CA No. L-000241-91, entitled "Unicane Workers Union-CLUP and its...