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Jusmag Philippines Vs. National Labor Relations Commission, Et Al.

JUSMAG PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION (Second Division) and FLORENCIO SACRAMENTO, Union President, JPFCEA, respondents.

G.R. No. 108813 | 1994-12-15

D E C I S I O N


PUNO, J.:

The immunity from suit of the Joint United States Military Assistance Group to the Republic of the Philippines (JUSMAG-Philippines) is the pivotal issue in the case at bench.

JUSMAG assails the January 29, 1993 Resolution of the NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION (public respondent), in NLRC NCR CASE NO. 00-03-02092-92, reversing the July 30, 1991 Order of the Labor Arbiter, and ordering the latter to assume jurisdiction over the complaint for illegal dismissal filed by FLORENCIO SACRAMENTO (private respondent) against petitioner.

First, the undisputed facts.

Private respondent was one of the seventy-four...