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Benguet Corp vs NLRC and Guianan

BENGUET CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and FELIZARDO A. GUIANAN, respondent.

G.R. No. 124166 | 1999-11-16

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

On grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction BENGUET CORPORATION assails the Decision of public respondent National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) for declaring, in complete disregard of petitioner's evidence, that private respondent was illegally dismissed.1 [Petition for Certiorari under Rule 65 of the Revised Rules of Court.]

Private respondent Felizardo A. Guianan started working with BENGUET way back in 1963 as a "bodegero" in its Ungay-Malobago Project in Rapu-Rapu, Albay. Sometime in 1966 he was transferred to the company's Negros Sulphur Project in Taytay, Negros...