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Mantle Trading Services, Incorporated and/or Bobby Del Rosario Vs. National Labor Relations Commission and Pablo S. Madriaga

MANTLE TRADING SERVICES, INCORPORATED AND/OR BOBBY DEL ROSARIO,Petitioners,versus NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and PABLO S. MADRIAGA, Respondents.

G.R. No. 166705 | 2009-07-28

D E C I S I O N


PUNO, C.J.:

This petition for review seeks to reverse the Decision[1] of the Court of Appeals in C.A.-G.R. SP No. 84796 which nullified and set aside the Decision[2] and Resolution of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) in NLRC NCR CA No. 034291-03 which modified an earlier decision by the Labor Arbiter holding that respondent Pablo S. Madriaga (Madriaga) was illegally dismissed.

Petitioner company, Mantle Trading Services, Inc., is engaged in the fishing business.[3] Sometime in June 1989, Madriaga was hired by petitioner company as a "batilyo" or fish hauler. Subsequently, he became a "tagapuno" (someone...