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Caurdanetaan Piece Workers Union vs. Laguesma [DECISION]

CAURDANETAAN PIECE WORKERS UNION, represented by JUANITO P. COSTALES, JR. in his capacity as union president, petitioner, vs. UNDERSECRETARY BIENVENIDO E. LAGUESMA and CORFARM GRAINS, INC., respondents.

G.R. No. 113542 | 1998-02-24

D E C I S I O N
 
PANGANIBAN, J.:
 
The Court reiterates some fundamental labor doctrines: (1) this Court may review factual determinations where the findings of the med-arbiter conflict with those of the undersecretary of labor; (2) an employer-employee relationship may be established by substantial evidence; (3) procedural due process is satisfied by the grant of an opportunity to be heard and an actual adversarial-type trial is not required; (4) the NLRC commits grave abuse of discretion when it remands a case to the labor arbiter in spite of ample pieces of evidence on record which are sufficient to decide the case directly; and...