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Philippine Airlines (PAL) vs. NLRC, et al.

PHILIPPINE AIRLINES, INC., petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION (2nd Division), LABOR ARBITER JOSE DE VERA, and EDILBERTO CASTRO, respondents.

G.R. No. 114307 | 1998-07-08

R E S O L U T I O N

ROMERO, J:

The central issue in the case at bar is whether or not an employee who has been preventively suspended beyond the maximum 30-day period is entitled to backwages and salary increases granted under the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) during his period of suspension.

Private respondent Edilberto Castro was hired as manifesting clerk by petitioner Philippine Airlines Inc. (PAL) on July 18, 1977. It appears that on March 12, 1984, respondent, together with co-employee Arnaldo Olfindo, were apprehended by government authorities while about to board a flight en route to Hongkong in possession of P39,850.00 and...