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Amado de Guzman, et al. Vs. CA, et al.

AMADO DE GUZMAN and MANILA WORKERS UNION AND GENERAL WORKERS UNION (MALEGWU), petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and NASIPIT LUMBER COMPANY, respondents.

G.R. No. 132257 | 1998-10-12

D E C I S I O N


PANGANIBAN, J.:

All money claims arising from an employer-employee relation are covered by the three-year prescriptive period mandated by Article 291 of the Labor Code, and not by Article 1144 of the Civil Code which provides for a ten-year prescriptive period for written agreements. Thus, Article 291 of the Labor Code applies to petitioners' money claim, which is based on a provision of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) on retirement and separation benefits and is a consequence of employer-employee relation. Moreover, voluntary arbitrators have original and exclusive jurisdiction to hear and decide grievances...