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Dominador Sanchez vs NLRC and Pepsi Cola

DOMINADOR SANCHEZ, petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and PEPSI COLA PRODUCTS PHILIPPINES, INC., respondents.

G.R. No 124348 | 1999-08-19

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

In Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc. v. NLRC1 [G.R. No. 82580, consolidated with Vega v. NLRC, G.R. No. 84075, 25 April 1989, 172 SCRA 751, p. 757.] we said that the life of a softdrinks company depends not so much on the bottling or production of the product since this is primarily done by automatic machines and personnel who are easily supervised, but upon mobile and far-ranging salesmen who go from store to store all over the country or region. Salesmen are highly individualistic personnel who have to be trusted and left essentially on their own. A high degree of confidence is reposed in them when...