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Ramon C. Lozon Vs. National Labor Relations Commission, Et Al.

RAMON C. LOZON, petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION (Second Division) and PHILIPPINE AIRLINES, INC., respondents.

G.R. No. 107660 | 1995-01-02

D E C I S I O N


VITUG, J.:

Petitioner Ramon C. Lozon, a certified public accountant, was a Senior Vice-President-Finance of Private respondent Philippine Airlines, Inc. ("PAL"), when his services were terminated on 19 December 1990 in the aftermath of the much-publicized "two-billion-peso PALscam." Lozon started to work for the national carrier on 23 August 1967 and, for twenty-three years, steadily climbed the corporate ladder until he became one of its vice-presidents. 1

His termination from the service was spawned by a letter sent some time in June 1990 by a member of PAL's board of directors, then Solicitor General Francisco...