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Philippine Rabbit Lines, Inc. Vs. National Labor Relations Comm., Et Al.

PHILIPPINE RABBIT LINES, INC., petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION (Second Division), LABOR ARBITER VALENTIN GUANIO, and SEVERINO ESTOQUE, respondents.

G.R. No. 100490 | 1992-08-12

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, C.J.:

At issue in this special civil action of certiorari is whether or not the respondent Commission had acted with grave abuse of discretion in declaring, in its Resolution of April 30, 1991, that Severino Estoque had been illegally dismissed from his employment by Philippine Rabbit Bus Lines, Inc., (hereafter, simply Philippine Rabbit).

The record discloses that Estoque worked for Philippine Rabbit as bus conductor from October 31, 1984 until October 15, 1986, when the company's General Manager sent him a memorandum to the effect that since he (a) "had not reported for work nor been . . heard from since...