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Philippine Airlines, Inc. vs. National Labor Relations Commission, et al.

PHILIPPINE AIRLINES, INC., petitioners vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION (4TH DIVISION), AND VICENTE O. SATOR, JR., respondents.

G.R. No. 120507 | 1997-09-26

D E C I S I O N


ROMERO, J.:

What's in a name?
That which we call a rose
By any other name
Would smell as sweet. 1

Shakespeare's lines must have been the farthest thing from the mind of the National Labor Relations Commission when, reversing the Labor Arbiter, it declared that the respondent worker should not have been dismissed for having been found guilty of stealing a purse when the petitioner Philippine Airlines, Inc. (PAL) had accused him of stealing a billfold.

The issue thus posed is: Does it matter if an employee, on first notice, is informed of an administrative charge for pilfering a billfold but after investigation is...