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Traders Royal Bank Employees Union vs. National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC)

TRADERS ROYAL BANK EMPLOYEES UNION-INDEPENDENT, petitioner vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and EMMANUEL NOEL A. CRUZ, respondents.

G.R. No. 120592 | 1997-03-14

D E C I S I O N

REGALADO, J.:

Petitioner Traders Royal Bank Employees Union and private respondent Atty. Emmanuel Noel A. Cruz, head of the E.N.A. Cruz and Associates law firm, entered into a retainer agreement on February 26, 1987 whereby the former obligated itself to pay the latter a monthly retainer fee of P3,000.00 in consideration of the law firm's undertaking to render the services enumerated in their contract. 1 Parenthetically, said retainer agreement was terminated by the union on April 4, 1990. 2

During the existence of that agreement, petitioner union referred to private respondent the claims of its members for holiday,...