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Traders Royal Bank vs NLRC and Rogelio Espanola

TRADERS ROYAL BANK, petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and ROGELIO ESPANOLA, respondent.

G.R. No. 127864 | 1999-12-22

D E C I S I O N 

BELLOSILLO, J.: 

Whether an employer-employee relationship exists between petitioner Traders Royal Bank and private respondent Rogelio Española - this is the issue on which hinges the fate of private respondent who after twenty (20) years of service found himself "jobless" and deprived of his only means of livelihood. 

On 27 June 1974 Agro-Commercial Security Services Agency Inc. (AGRO) assigned Rogelio Española to work as a janitor at the Iloilo Branch of petitioner Traders Royal Bank (TRB). This assignment was covered by Mission Order No. 29 dated 26 June 1974 which was duly issued by the Administrative...