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Aboitiz Shipping Corporation vs. Dionisio C. Dela Serna, et al.

ABOITIZ SHIPPING CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. HON. DIONISIO C. DELA SERNA, IN HIS CAPACITY AS UNDERSECRETARY OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; HON. LUNA C. PIEZAS, IN HIS CAPACITY AS DIRECTOR, NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; and, ABOITIZ SHIPPING EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, respondents.

G.R. No. 88538 | 1990-04-25

D E C I S I O N


PADILLA, J.:

The principal issue in this special civil action for certiorari is whether the respondent Regional Director, National Capital Region, Department of Labor and Employment (Regional Director, for short) correctly assumed jurisdiction over the money claims filed with him by the complainants (members of herein private respondent).

Assailed specifically in this petition is the Order dated 9 February 1989 of the respondent Undersecretary of Labor and Employment affirming the Order dated 13 October 1988 of the Regional Director, ordering petitioner company to pay the seven hundred seventeen (717) complainants a...