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Re: Letter of Court of Appeals Justice Vicente S.E. Veloso for Entitlement to Longevity Pay for His Services as Commission Member III of the National Labor Relations Commission [DISSENTING OPINION, BRION,J.]

A.M. No. 12-8-07-CA Re: Letter of Court of Appeals Justice Vicente S.E. Veloso for Entitlement to Longevity Pay for His Services as Commission Member III of the National Labor Relations Commission x---------------------------------------------x A.M. No. 12-9-5-SC Re: Computation of Longevity Pay of Court of Appeals Justice Angelita A. Gacutan x---------------------------------------------x A.M. No. 13-02-07-SC Re: Request of Court of Appeals Justice Remedios A. SalazarFernando that Her Services as MTC Judge and as COMELEC Commissioner be Considered as Part of Her Judicial Service and Included in the Computation/Adjustment of Her Longevity Pay. Present: SERENO, CJ., CARPIO, VELASCO, JR., LEONARDO-DE CASTRO, BRION, PERALTA, BERSAMIN, DEL CASTILLO, PEREZ, MENDOZA, REYES, PERLAS-BERNABE, LEONEN, JARDELEZA,* and CAGUIOA, JJ.

A.M. No. 12-8-07-CA | 2016-07-26

DISSENTING OPINION
 
BRION,J.:
 
I dissent from the ponencia's grant of the Motion for Reconsideration filed by former Court of Appeals (CA) Associate Justice Angelita Alberto Gacutan (Justice Gacutan) asking the Court to reconsider the portion of the Court's Resolution1 in A.M. Nos. 12-8-07-CA,2 12-9-5-SC,3 and 13-02-07SC4 affecting her longevity pay.
 
On June 16, 2015, the Court had previously issued a Resolution, penned by Justice Arturo D. Brion, addressing the letter-requests of several retired CA justices asking for the re-computation of their longevity pay. These letter-requests had been consolidated, and the...