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Benjamin Celestial Vs. Southern Mindanao Experimental Station 106 Phil 696

BENJAMIN CELESTIAL, ET AL., petitioners, vs. THE SOUTHERN MINDANAO EXPERIMENTAL STATION, ET AL., respondents.

G.R. No. L-12950 | 1959-12-09

D E C I S I O N


MONTEMAYOR, J.:

This is a petition by Benjamin Celestial and 175 others for review of the decision of the Auditor General, dated September 9, 1957, denying their claim for differential pay under the Minimum Wage Law.
The record discloses that petitioners are employees and/or workers of the Southern Mindanao Experimental Station, later referred to as Experimental Station, Bureau of Plant Industry in Davao City, and that since 1952, they had been paid each a daily wage of P2.50; that some time in March 1957, petitioners filed with the Auditor General's Office their claims for differential pay, alleging among other things...