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Empire Insurance Company Vs. NLRC, et al.

EMPIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, petitioners, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and MONERA ANDAL, respondents.

G.R. No. 121879 | 1998-08-14

D E C I S I O N

PURISIMA, J:

This is a Petition of a surety company disowning solidary liability with its principal, a recruitment agency, on the monetary claims of an overseas contract worker for illegal dismissal, non-payment and underpayment of salaries.

The antecedent facts and proceedings can be capsulized, as follows:

Private respondent Monera Andal applied with G & M Phils., Inc. for-an overseas employment as a domestic helper in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She was hired for a term of two years at a monthly basic salary of US $200.00.

She left for the said jobsite on May 17, 1991 and worked for a certain Abdullah Al Basha....