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DOLE Phils vs Hon Leogardo and Associated Labor Union

DOLE PHILIPPINES, INC., petitioner, vs. THE HON. VICENTE LEOGARDO, JR. (in his capacity as Deputy Minister of Labor), and ASSOCIATED LABOR UNION (ALU), respondents.

G.R. No. L-60018 | 1982-10-23

D E C I S I O N


ESCOLIN, J.:

Petition for certiorari to annul and set aside the order of respondent Deputy Minister of Labor, dated October 26, 1981, which affirmed the order of the Regional Director of the Ministry of Labor, Davao City, requiring petitioner Dole Philippines, Inc. to pay its employees the year-end productivity bonus agreed upon in their Collective Bargaining Agreement in addition to the 13th month pay prescribed under Presidential Decree No. 851.

The salient facts are as follows:

On June 6, 1975, Standard Philippines Fruit Corporation or STANFILCO, a company merged in 1981 with petitioner Dole Philippines, Inc.,...