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Marcial Aparece Vs. J. Marketing Corporation etc.

MARCIAL APARECE, Petitioner, versus J. MARKETING CORPORATION and/or ROGER L. AGUILLON, Respondents.

G.R. No. 174224 | 2008-10-17

D E C I S I O N


Tinga, J.:

Petitioner, Marcial Aparece, assails the Decision[1] of the Court of Appeals dated April 18, 2006, which reversed and set aside the decisions of the Labor Arbiter[2] and the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC), declared him not to have been illegally dismissed, but pronounced him entitled to 13th month pay.

It should be mentioned at the outset that in his complaint for illegal dismissal,[3] petitioner claims that his employment woes stem from a personal animosity borne towards him by J. Marketing Corporation's (JMC's) branch manager, respondent Roger Aguillon. He also refers to the incident at which...