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GTE Directories Corporation Vs. Augusto S. Sanchez, Et Al.

GTE DIRECTORIES CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. HON. AUGUSTO S. SANCHEZ and GTE DIRECTORIES CORPORATION EMPLOYEES UNION, respondents. Siguion Reyna, Montecillo & Ongsiako for petitioner. Ignacio P. Lacsina for respondent Union.

G.R. No. 76219 | 1991-05-27

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

GTE Directories Corporation (hereafter, simply GTE) is a foreign corporation engaged in the Philippines in the business of publishing the PLDT (Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company) telephone directories for Metro Manila and several provinces.

The record shows that initially, the practice was for its sales representatives to be given work assignments within specific territories by the so-called "draw method." These sales territories were so plotted or mapped out as to have "an equal number of advertisers as well as . . . revenue . . ." Within these territories, the sales representatives therein...