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Premiere Development Bank, et al. Vs. NLRC, et al.

PREMIERE DEVELOPMENT BANK, PROCOPIO C. REYES, PACITA M. ARAOS and RENATO DIONISIO, petitioners, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and TEODORA LABANDA, respondents.

G.R. No. 114695 | 1998-07-23

D E C I S I O N

MARTINEZ, J:

Is the filing of an action for damages against one's employer tantamount to abandonment of job? This is the main issue sought to be resolved in this petition for certiorari.

The factual antecedents are as follows:

On August 8, 1985, Ramon T. Ocampo, a depositor of petitioner bank, issued a check in the amount of P6,792.66 in favor of and for deposit to the account of Country Banker's Insurance Corporation (CBISCO), also a depositor of petitioner bank. On the same day, after the check and the deposit slip were presented to respondent Teodora Labanda, who was employed as teller at petitioner's Taytay Branch,...