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Homeowners Savings & Loan Asso. vs NLRC, et al.

HOMEOWNERS SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, INC., petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and MARILYN CABATBAT, respondents.

G.R. No. 97067 | 1996-09-26

HERMOSISIMA, JR., J.:


The Philippine Constitution, while inexorably committed towards the protection of the working class from exploitation and unfair treatment, nevertheless mandates the policy of social justice so as to strike a balance between an avowed predilection for labor, on the one hand, and the maintenance of the legal rights of capital, the proverbial hen that lays the golden egg, on the other. Indeed, we should not be unmindful of the legal norm that justice is in every case for the deserving, to be dispensed with in the light of established facts, the applicable law, and existing jurisprudence.

In the case at bench, we tip...