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Filipinas Broadcasting Network vs. NLRC, et al.

FILIPINAS BROADCASTING NETWORK, INC., petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and SIMEON MAPA JR., respondents.

G.R. No. 118892 | 1998-03-11

D E C I S I O N

PANGANIBAN, J:

As a rule, factual findings of the NLRC are binding on this Court. However, when the findings of the NLRC and the labor arbiter are contradictory, this Court may review questions of fact. Where the evidence clearly shows the absence of an employer-employee relationship, a claim for unpaid wages, thirteenth month pay, holiday and rest pay and other employment benefits must necessarily fail.

The Case

Before us is a petition for certiorari assailing the April 29, 1994 Decision of the National Labor Relations Commission, 1 in Case No. 05- 08-00348-92, entitled "Simeon M. Mapa Jr., v. DZRC Radio Station." The...