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Pantranco North Express, Inc. vs NLRC, et al.

PANTRANCO NORTH ExPRESS, INC., petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION (NLRC), FIRST DIVISION and REYNALDO M. RUEDA, respondents.

G.R. No. 114333 | 1996-01-24

PUNO, J.:


The present petition for certiorari assails the Decision 1 dated November 29, 1993, rendered by public respondent National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) in NLRC NCR CA No. 002166-91, which reversed the decision of the labor arbiter.

The facts show that on May 14, 1956, private respondent Reynaldo Rueda was employed as a bus conductor by petitioner and later promoted to the position of Line Inspector-I.

Several years later, petitioner suffered financial setbacks and retrenched some of its employees. Rueda was among those retrenched on September 16, 1978. He received separation pay in the amount of nine thousand pesos...