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Great Pacific Life Assurance Corporation Vs. National Labor Relations Commission, Et Al.

GREAT PACIFIC LIFE ASSURANCE CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, ERNESTO RUIZ and RODRIGO RUIZ, respondents.

G.R. Nos. 80750-51 | 1990-07-23

D E C I S I O N


CORTES, J.:

Brothers Rodrigo and Ernesto Ruiz (private respondents herein) entered into individual agency agreements with petitioner Grepalife in 1977, each starting out as trainee-agents and later promoted to higher positions. On July 6, 1981, Ernesto was designated as district manager under a three-year Agreement of Managership [Annex "A", Rollo, p. 34]. However, he was dismissed from service on November 30, 1983, before the lapse of the period fixed in the contract, when upon audit he was found to have delayed the remittance of premium collections in his possession and to have appropriated for his own use the sum of...