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San Juan De Dios Hospital Employees Assn.-Afw, et al. vs. Nlrc, et al.

SAN JUAN DE DIOS HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION-AFW/MA. CONSUELO MAQUILING, LEONARDO MARTINEZ, DOMINGO ELA, JR., RODOLFO CALUCIN, JR., PERLA MENDOZA, REX RAPHAEL REYES, ROGELIO BELMONTE, AND 375 OTHER EMPLOYEE-UNION MEMBERS, petitioners, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, and SAN JUAN DE DIOS HOSPITAL, respondents.

G.R. No. 126383 | 1997-11-28

D E C I S I O N

FRANCISCO, J:

Petitioners, the rank-and-file employee-union officers and members of San Juan De Dios Hospital Employees Association, sent on July 08, 1991, a "four (4)- page letter with attached support signatures . . . requesting and pleading for the expeditious implementation and payment by respondent" Juan De Dios Hospital "of the '40-HOURS/5-DAY WORKWEEK' with compensable weekly two (2) days off provided for by Republic Act 5901 as clarified for enforcement by the Secretary of Labor's Policy Instructions No. 54 dated April 12, 1988." 1 Respondent hospital failed to give a favorable response; thus, petitioners filed a...