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Brent Hospital Inc., et al. vs. NLRC, et al.

BRENT HOSPITAL INC. and MORLITO B. APUZEN, petitioners, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and TERESITA M. FERNANDEZ, respondents.

G.R. No. 117593 | 1998-07-10

D E C I S I O N

ROMERO, J:

On June 6, 1968, respondent Teresita M. Fernandez was employed by petitioner Zamboanga Brent Hospital (Brent) as a staff nurse and thereafter discharged functions 1 in different capacities until she was promoted as acting clinic coordinator.

It appears that sometime in August 1990, the principal and a number of faculty members of Brent's School of Midwifery (BSM) resigned and sought lucrative jobs abroad, thus, crippling its operations. Consequently, respondent was offered the position of principal which proposal, however, she initially rejected. After continuous prodding and with the assurance that she could...