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Eureka Personnel and Management Corp. vs Eduardo Valencia

EUREKA PERSONNEL & MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC., Petitioner, versus EDUARDO VALENCIA, Respondent.

G.R. No. 159358 | 2009-07-15

D E C I S I O N


BRION, J.:

We resolve the Rule 45 petition filed by Eureka Personnel and Management Services, Inc. (Eureka) to challenge the Court of Appeals (CA) decision[1] and resolution[2] in CA-G.R. SP No. 61553. The appellate court upheld the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC)'s decision dismissing Eureka's appeal for having been filed out of time.[3]

FACTUAL ANTECEDENTS

Eureka, a local recruitment agency, hired respondent Eduardo Valencia (Valencia) as an electrical engineer for its principal, Haif Trading and Contracting Establishment of Saudi Arabia (principal or the company), under a one-year employment contract....