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Pure Foods Corporation vs. National Labor Relations Commission, et al.

PURE FOODS CORPORATION, petitioner vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, RODOLFO CORDOVA, VIOLETA CRUSIS, ET AL., * respondents.

G.R. No. 122653 | 1997-12-12

D E C I S I O N


DAVIDE, JR., J.:

The crux of this petition for certiorari is the issue of whether employees hired for a definite period and whose services are necessary and desirable in the usual business or trade of the employer are regular employees.

The private respondents (numbering 906) were hired by petitioner Pure Foods Corporation to work for a fixed period of five months at its tuna cannery plant in Tambler, General Santos City. After the expiration of their respective contracts of employment in June and July 1991, their services were terminated. They forthwith executed a "Release and Quitclaim" stating that they had no...