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Colegio Del Sto. Nino, Et Al. Vs. National Labor Relations Commission, Et Al.

COLEGIO DEL STO. NINO and/or Fr. AMBROCIO GALINDEZ, OSA RECTOR, Fr. NICOLAS ECHEVARIA, OSA DIRECTOR, Fr. ROGELIO POSITAR, OSA, Mrs. JOSEFINA BACALSO, petitioners, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and ANDREA OSORIO and PAZ JARANILLA, respondents. Fernan, Mercado & Tan for petitioners. Arsenio C. Tan for private respondents.

G.R. No. 96301 | 1991-05-28

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

The petitioner challenges the decision of the public respondent finding that the private respondents have been illegally dismissed and requiring their reinstatement, with damages. It prays that the said decision be reversed for being tainted with grave abuse of discretion and asks that the questioned dismissal be sustained instead.

The private respondents were employed by petitioner Colegio del Sto. Niño de Cebu, Andrea B. Osorio in 1978 as a kindergarten teacher and Paz L. Jaranilla in 1981 as Grade I class teacher. In a letter dated May 6, 1988, they were advised by the School Rector of the termination of their...