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Nazario C. Austria vs National Labor Relations Com

NAZARIO C. AUSTRIA, petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, ABETO A. UY and PHILIPPINE STEEL COATING CORPORATION, respondents.

G.R. No. 123646 | 1999-07-14

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

PHILIPPINE STEEL COATING CORPORATION (PHILSTEEL), private respondent, is engaged in the manufacture of prefabricated steel, galvanized iron and other metal products. On 19 December 1985 it hired petitioner Nazario C. Austria as its Credit and Collection Manager.1 [Rollo, p. 6.] On 11 August 1987 petitioner and private respondent PHILSTEEL entered into a "Confidentiality Agreement" whereby he agreed not to disclose to anyone outside the company any technical, operational and other such information acquired in the course of his employment, unless otherwise duly authorized by private respondent, on pain of...