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PEOPLEC, et al vs. Reyes, et al

PHILIPPINE PACKING CORPORATION and RICARTE ABEJUELA, petitioners, vs. HON. BALDOMERO B. REYES, Judge, Court of Agrarian Relations, 14th Regional District; NERIO MEDEL, ERIBERTO CABA?EZ, MANUEL AJOC and PETRONIO ABRIO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-30030/L-33801 | 1971-11-29

D E C I S I O N


TEEHANKEE, J:

These two cases involving the same petitioner corporation and some of its agricultural workers named as private respondents submit the identical legal issue of whether or not a preliminary investigation is necessary in unfair labor practice cases filed before the Court of Agrarian Relations. They were therefore ordered consolidated 1 and are now jointly decided herein.

In L-30030, respondent-agricultural workers filed on November 18, 1965 with respondent court a complaint for "dismissal without justifiable cause" which was deemed as one for unfair labor practice and alleging that they were dismissed by...