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Florencio R. Bernabe Vs. Zenaida C. Grimaldo, etc.

Florencio R. Bernabe, Complainant, versus Zenaida C. Grimaldo, Court Stenographer, Regional Trial Court, Branch 7, Malolos City. Respondent.

A.M. No. P-08-2453 (Formerly OCA IPI No. 08-2764-P) | 2009-02-02

R E S O L U T I O N


PER CURIAM:

This Court will not shirk from its responsibility of sternly wielding a corrective hand to discipline its errant employees and to weed out those who are undesirable.[1] While it has the discretion to temper the harshness of its judgment with mercy,[2] it shall also not hesitate to impose the ultimate penalty of dismissal where an employee commits, without any remorse or hint of reformation, the same wrongful act she was previously disciplined for and warned about.

Florencio R. Bernabe (complainant) filed before the Court an Affidavit-Complaint dated February 12, 2007, charging Zenaida C. Grimaldo, Court...