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Antonio Catatista, Et Al. Vs. National Labor Relations Commission, Et Al.

ANTONIO CATATISTA, JAIME MONSERATE, FRANCISCO ELISAN, FERNANDO DE LA PENA, DIEGO TUPAS, ROSENDO MONSERATE, ERNESTO SIBUNAL, DIOSCORO HINO-O, AURELIO DESCATAMIENTO, LODOVICO DELA PENA, and DIONISIO BALLADOS, petitioners, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and VICTORIAS MILLING COMPANY, INC., respondents.

G.R. No. L-102422 | 1995-08-03

D E C I S I O N


ROMERO, J.:

Assailed in this petition is the decision of the NLRC, Fourth Division, of Cebu City dated March 8, 1991 which reversed the decision of the Labor Arbiter dated October 18, 1988 and the resolution dated July 23, 1991 which denied petitioners' motion for reconsideration.

Petitioners were regular plantation workers in Hacienda Binanlutan, one of the six haciendas operated and managed by private respondent Victorias Milling Company, Inc. with an area of 14.8 hectares planted to sugarcane.

Sometime in June 1984, private respondent decided to permanently stop and close its sugarcane operations in Hacienda...