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Personnel Services Vs. National Labor Relations Commission, Et Al.

PERSONNEL SERVICES, petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, PHILIPPINE OVERSEAS EMPLOYEE ADMINISTRATION and SUSAN SUMATRE, respondents.

G.R. No. 108284 | 1993-06-30

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

Susan Sumatre was full of hope and anticipation when she enplaned for a foreign land to work as a domestic. Before her spread the promise of a new life, with all the enticements of a future bright with the prospect of prosperity and even happiness. But all this fled in a cruel twinkling. Hardly two weeks after she left, she was back in this country, broken of body and mind and with nothing but bitter memories of her misadventure.

Petitioner Sigma Personnel Services is a duly licensed recruitment agency authorized by the POEA to recruit and deploy workers for land-based overseas employment. 1 Private respondent...