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Hinatuan Mining Corporation, et al. vs. National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC)

HINATUAN MINING CORPORATION AND/OR THE MANAGER, petitioners vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and MARGOT BATISTER, respondents.

G.R. No. 117394 | 1997-02-21

D E C I S I O N

PUNO, J.:

This case stemmed from a complaint filed by private respondent MARGOT BATISTER for separation pay with prayer for moral and exemplary damages against her employer, petitioner HINATUAN MINING CORPORATION.

The records show that private respondent was employed by petitioner on July 20, 1981. She rose from the ranks to become the company's chief chemist. Her duty was to examine and analyze the nickel content of ores in petitioner's mine site in Hinatuan, Talavera, Surigao del Norte, before they are shipped to Japan.

In November and December, 1991, petitioner sent private respondent on a training grant to Japan to...