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Holiday Inn Manila and/or Liner vs. National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC)

HOLIDAY INN MANILA and/or HUBERT LINER and BABY DISQUITADO, petitioners, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION (Second Division) and ELENA HONASAN, respondents.

G.R. No. 109114 | 1993-09-14

D E C I S I O N

CRUZ, J.:

The employer has absolute discretion in hiring his employees in accordance with his standards of competence and probity. This is his prerogative. Once hired, however, the employees are entitled to the protection of the law even during the probation period and more so after they have become members of the regular force. The employer does not have the same freedom in the hiring of his employees as in their dismissal.

Elena Honasan applied for employment with the Holiday Inn and was on April 15, 1991, accepted for "on-the-job training" as a telephone operator for a period of three weeks. 1 For her services,...