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Municipality of La Libertad, Negros Oriental vs Judith C. Penaflor

MUNICIPALITY OF LA LIBERTAD, NEGROS ORIENTAL, represented by the Municipal Mayor LAWRENCE D. LIMKAICHONG, JR., Petitioner, versus JUDITH C. PENAFLOR, Respondent.

G.R. No. 155477 | 2005-03-18

D E C I S I O N


CARPIO MORALES, J.:

Being assailed in the present Petition for Review on Certiorari is the May 13, 2002 Decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) affirming the Resolution of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) which granted the motion of Judith Peñaflor (respondent) praying for the payment by the Municipality of La Libertad, Negros Oriental (petitioner) of backwages from the time of her termination from, up to her reinstatement to her former position as Rural Health Midwife.

Before November 13, 1995, respondent, Rural Health Midwife who had been in the employ of the office of petitioner for about twenty years,[1] filed an...