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Centro Escolar University Faculty and Allied Workers Union-Independent vs. Hon. Court of Appeals.

CENTRO ESCOLAR UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND ALLIED WORKERS UNION - INDEPENDENT, Petitioner, versus HON. COURT OF APPEALS, APRON MANGABAT as Voluntary Arbitrator, and CENTRO ESCOLAR UNIVERSITY, Respondents.

G.R. No. 165486 | 2006-05-31

SECOND DIVISION

D E C I S I O N


PUNO, J.

Republic Act No. (R.A.) 6728, otherwise known as the "Government Assistance To Students and Teachers in Private Education Act," allows private schools to increase their tuition fees on the condition that 70% of the tuition fee increases shall go to the payment of salaries, wages, allowances and other benefits of teaching and non-teaching personnel. The petition at bar poses the issue of whether respondent Centro Escolar University may source from the 70% incremental proceeds (IP) the integrated IP incorporated into the salaries of its teaching and non-teaching staff pursuant to the collective...