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NATIONAL SUGAR REFINERIES CORPORATION, ARSENIO B. YULO, and CONRADO VIADAD, petitioners, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, BENJAMIN L. QUIMBA, and JENNY LAGRANA (in representation of her late husband MONICO LAGRANA), respondents.

NATIONAL SUGAR REFINERIES CORPORATION, ARSENIO B. YULO, and CONRADO VIADAD, petitioners, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, BENJAMIN L. QUIMBA, and JENNY LAGRANA (in representation of her late husband MONICO LAGRANA), respondents.

G.R. No. 112539 | 1999-06-21

D E C I S I O N

MENDOZA, J.:

For review is the ruling[1] of the National Labor Relations Commission, affirming the decision of the Labor Arbiter finding petitioners guilty of illegal dismissal of private respondents Benjamin Quimba and Monico Lagrana and ordering them to pay private respondents separation pay, backwages, and other benefits.[2]

The facts of this case are as follows:

In 1969, respondent Quimba was detailed as a warehouseman in the Calinog Lambunao Sugarmill, Inc., a sister corporation of petitioner National Sugar Refineries Corporation (NASUREFCO), until his transfer to petitioner corporation ten years later. On the...