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Tabuk Multi-Purpose vs. Duclan

TABUK MULTI-PURPOSE COOPERATIVE, INC. (TAMPCO), JOSEPHINE DOCTOR, AND WILLIAM BAO-ANGAN, PETITIONERS, VS. MAGDALENA DUCLAN, RESPONDENT.

G.R. No. 203005 | 2016-03-14

D E C I S I O N
 
DEL CASTILLO, J.:
 
An employee's willful and repeated disregard of a resolution issued by a cooperative's board of directors (BOD) declaring a moratorium on the approval and release of loans, thus placing the resources of the cooperative and ultimately the hard-earned savings of its members in a precarious state, constitutes willful disobedience which justifies the penalty of dismissal under Article 282 of the Labor Code.

Assailed in this Petition for Review on Certiorari[1] are: 1) the September 15, 2011 Decision[2] of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. SP No. 114753, which reversed and set aside the...