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Domingo F. Bondoc vs. People's Bank and Trust Company, et al.

DOMINGO F. BONDOC, petitioner, vs. PEOPLE'S BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, BANK OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS (Surviving Bank) and JACOBO C. CLAVE (as Presidential Executive Assistant), respondents.

G.R. No. L-43835 | 1981-03-31

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

This certiorari case involves the issue of whether respondent Presidential Executive Assistant committed a grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack of jurisdiction in confirming the abolition of petitioner's position as a department manager in a bank and the payment to him of separation pay instead of reinstating him with backwages.

Domingo F. Bondoc, who used to be an assistant of Jaime C. Velasquez in the Ayala Securities Corporation (p. 116, Rollo), joined the People's Bank and Trust Company on October 1, 1966 upon the recommendation of Velasquez, a director, to Roman Azanza, the bank president (p. 35,...