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Rosario Brothers Inc. Vs. Blas F. Ople, et al.

ROSARIO BROTHERS INC. (MANILA COD DEPARTMENT STORE), petitioner, vs. HON. BLAS F. OPLE, THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, and LEONARDO LOVERIA, MARIETTA GALUT, LINDA TAPICERIA, JESUS S. OLIVER, CLARITA SANGLE, RICARDO ROXAS, ANTONIO MABUTOL, LUZ BAYNO, NESTOR SANCHEZ, TITO CASTALEDA, EDDIE RODRIGUEZ, MANUEL MEJES, FRANCISCA TAPICERIA, EDITHA BAYNO, ET. AL., respondents.

G.R. No. L-53590 | 1984-07-31

D E C I S I O N


RELOVA, J.:

The issue raised in this case is whether an employer-employee relationship exists between the petitioner and the private respondents. It is the submission of petitioner that no such relationship exists or has been created because the "series of memoranda" issued by petitioner to the private respondents from 1973 to 1977 would reveal that it had no control and/or supervision over the work of the private respondents.

Private respondents are tailors, pressers, stitchers and similar workers hired by the petitioner in its tailoring department (Modes Suburbia). Some had worked there since 1969 until their...