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Cebu Engineering & Dev. Co. Vs. NLRC, et al.

CEBU ENGINEERING and DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, INC., petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and JAIME PEREZ, respondents.

G.R. No. 118695 | 1998-04-22

D E C I S I O N

BELLOSILLO, J:

When the conflicting interests of labor and capital are weighed on the scales of social justice, the heavier influence of the latter must be counterbalanced by the sympathy and compassion the law must accord the underprivileged worker. This is only fair if he is to be given the opportunity "and the right" to assert and defend his cause not as a subordinate but as a peer of management, with which he can negotiate on even plane. Labor is not a mere employee of capital but its active and equal partner. 1

ASSERTING grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction, petitioner seeks to annul...