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Cabalan Pastulan Negrito Labor Asso., Et Al. Vs. National Labor Relations Commission, Et Al.

CABALAN PASTULAN NEGRITO LABOR ASSOCIATION (CAPANELA) and JOSE ALVIZ, SR., petitioners, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and FERNANDO SANCHEZ, respondents.

G.R. No. 106108 | 1995-02-23

D E C I S I O N


REGALADO, J.:

A man said to the Universe,
Behold, I am born!
However, replied the Universe,
The fact does not create in me
A sense of obligation.

To most, these familiar verses express the article of faith for self-reliance. To the racist in some countries, however, they can mean that the world does not owe the Negroid or other colored people equal solicitude. The neo-colonial in the Philippines would hold the Negrito or a member of indigenous cultural communities to the same social bondage. But our constitution and our laws were precisely formulated under a sense of obligation to the marginalized and the...