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Philippine Scout Veterans vs. National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC)

PHILIPPINE SCOUT VETERANS SECURITY AND INVESTIGATION AGENCY AND/OR SEVERO SANTIAGO, petitioners, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and MARIANO FEDERICO, respondents.

G.R. No. 115019 | 1997-04-14

D E C I S I O N
 
BELLOSILLO, J.:

MARIANO FEDERICO, private respondent, had been working with petitioners Philippine Scout Veterans Security and Investigation Agency and/or Severe Santiago as a security guard for twenty-three (23) years. On 16 September 1991 Federico, then already sixty (60) years old, tendered his so-called "letter of resignation" citing as his reasons physical disability to perform his duties and desire to spend the rest of his life in the province. It seems that the letter did not strictly refer to "resignation" but "withdrawal from occupation" because thereafter he sought alternative...