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Phil. Nat'l. Railways vs. Court of Industrial Relations, et al.

PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RAILWAYS, petitioner, vs. COURT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS and MRR MEDICAL, DENTAL, NURSES' ASSOCIATION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-30942 | 1974-05-31

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

This petition for review of an order of respondent Court, sustaining the right of members of private respondent, the Manila Railroad Medical, Dental, Nurses' Association to overtime compensation, reflects the lather adamant stand of petitioner, the Philippine National Railways, to resist the payment thereof. The attitude of intransigence is, however, not enough; what it contends for must be borne out by the applicable statutory provision. As its language favors the stand of private respondent, petitioner is reduced to maintaining that such an order could be set aside as the members of respondent Union...