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Offshore Industries Inc vs Nat'l Labor Rel. Comm et

OFFSHORE INDUSTRIES, INC., petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION (5th DIVISION), LABOR ARBITER CORNELIO L. LINSANGAN and ALFREDO F. OSORIO, respondents.

G.R. No. 83108 | 1989-08-29

D E C I S I O N


GANCAYCO, J.:

The validity of the dismissal of an employee is the principal issue in this special civil action for certiorari.

Petitioner Offshore Industries, Inc. is a business firm engaged in lighterage. Private respondent Alfredo F. Osorio had been an employee of the petitioner since 1982. At the time of his dismissal in 1987, the private respondent was the barge master of Barge 10002.

In December 1986, the Vill Integrated Transport Corporation chartered two barges owned by the petitioner, i.e., Barge 10002 and another barge, the Masuda. The chartered vessels were to transport bags of sugar from Port Victorias in...