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PLDT, et al vs Arturo Raymundo Tolentino

PHILIPPINE LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE COMPANY, ANTONIO O. COJUANGCO, JOSE P. DE JESUS, ENRIQUE D. PEREZ, ANTONIO R. SAMSON, RAUL J. PALABRICA, JOSE V. LADIA and NICANOR E. SACDALAN, Petitioners, versus ARTURO RAYMUNDO TOLENTINO, Respondent.

G.R. No. 143171 | 2004-09-21

D E C I S I O N


CORONA, J.:

This is a petition to review, under Rule 45 of the Revised Rules of Court, the decision[1] of the Court of Appeals[2] in C.A. - G.R. SP No. 50081 finding that respondent Arturo R. Tolentino was illegally dismissed and reversing the decision of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC). The dispositive portion of the Court of Appeals decision reads:

WHEREFORE, the appealed decision is hereby REVERSED and SET ASIDE. Accordingly, the decision dated 30 April 1997, of Labor Arbiter Eduardo J. Carpio is REINSTATED.[3]

Respondent Tolentino was employed in petitioner PLDT for 23 years. He started in 1972 as an...