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Hermito Cabcaban vs. National Labor Relations Commission, et al.

HERMITO CABCABAN, petitioner vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, FOURTH DIVISION and TEODORA CABILLO DE GUIA, respondents.

G.R. No. 120256 | 1997-08-18

D E C I S I O N


KAPUNAN, J.:

On March 16, 1993, Hermito Cabcaban, then 63 years old, filed a complaint for retirement benefits under Republic Act 7641 against Hda. Corazon de Jesus and/or Teodora Cabillo de Guia. Complainant alleged that he worked at the 50-hectare hacienda, owned by Teodora Cabillo de Guia at Bais, Negros Oriental, from 1962 to July 1991, 1 performing such jobs as clearing the plantation, planting, weeding, fertilizing, cutting cane points, canal digging, harvesting/loading "depol," "gahit," and gathering coconuts.

Respondents moved to dismiss the complaint on the following grounds: first, that complainant's cause of...