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Wellington Investment And Manufacturing Corporation Vs. Cresenciano B. Trajano, Et Al.

WELLINGTON INVESTMENT AND MANUFACTURING CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. CRESENCIANO B. TRAJANO, Under-Secretary of Labor and Employment, ELMER ABADILLA, and 34 others, respondents.

G.R. No. 114698 | 1995-07-03

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

The basic issue raised by petitioner in this case is, as its counsel puts it, "whether or not a monthly-paid employee, receiving a fixed monthly compensation, is entitled to an additional pay aside from his usual holiday pay, whenever a regular holiday falls on a Sunday."

The case arose from a routine inspection conducted by a labor Enforcement Officer on August 6, 1991 of the Wellington Flour Mills, an establishment owned and operated by petitioner Wellington Investment and Manufacturing Corporation (hereafter, simply Wellington). The officer thereafter drew up a report, a copy of which was "explained to...