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Digitel vs. Soriano [DECISION]

DIGITEL* TELECOMMUNICATIONS PHILIPPINES, INC., JOHNSON ROBERT L. GO** and ERIC J. SEVERINO,*** Petitioners, versus MARIQUIT SORIANO, Respondent.

G.R. No. 166039 | 2006-06-26

D E C I S I O N
 
CARPIO MORALES, J.:
 
In issue in the present Petition for Review[1] is whether respondent, Mariquit Soriano (Mariquit), was forced to resign, due to professional and sexual harassment, thus amounting to constructive dismissal.

The Labor Arbiter and the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) held in the negative.  The Court of Appeals held otherwise.

From the records of the case, the following antecedent facts are culled:

In the third quarter of 1998, petitioner Digitel Telecommunications Philippines, Inc. (Digitel) hired Mariquit, then of 48 summers, a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition graduate from the...