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PISA Corp vs Virgilio Dapiton and NLRC

PHILIPPINE INDUSTRIAL SECURITY AGENCY CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. VIRGILIO DAPITON and the NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, respondents.

G.R. No. 127421 | 1999-12-08

D E C I S I O N

PUNO, J.:

This case arose from a complaint for illegal dismissal, underpayment of salaries and wages, overtime pay, holiday pay, 13th month pay and service incentive leave pay filed by respondent Virgilio D. Dapiton against petitioner Philippine Industrial Security Agency Corporation and its President, Isidro Lirag.

The evidence for petitioner shows that on November 2, 1990 petitioner hired respondent as a security guard. His initial assignment was at PCIBank in Kalookan City. During his tour of duty at PCIBank on January 25, 1994, respondent had a heated argument with his fellow security guard, Roderick Lumen. The...