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Nyk-Fil Ship Management Inc. and/or Nyk Ship Management Hk., Ltd. vs. The National Labor Relations Commission and Lauro A. Hernandez.

NYK-FIL SHIP MANAGEMENT INC. and/or NYK SHIP MANAGEMENT HK., LTD., Petitioners, versus THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION AND LAURO A. HERNANDEZ, Respondent.

G.R. No. 161104 | 2006-09-27

THIRD DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N 
 
CARPIO MORALES, J.: 
 
By a contract[1] forged on January 21, 1999, petitioner NYK Ship Management (HK) Ltd., through its local manning agent-co-petitioner NYK-Fil Ship Management, Inc., hired Lauro A. Hernandez (respondent) as a boatswain on board the vessel S.S. LNG FLORA for a period of eight months. 
 
Before the contract was executed, respondent was made to undergo the routine Pre-employment Medical Examination 
 
(PEME) and was found to be fit to work by the attending physician, Dr. Clarissa M. Mendoza.[2] On the query contained in the medical history portion as...