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Lagera vs NLRC, PNCC

JOSELITO LAGERA, petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION ( N L R C ) and PHILIPPINE NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION, respondents.

G.R. No. 123636 | 2000-03-31

R E S O L U T I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

This petition for certiorari seeks to annul the decision of NLRC promulgated on October 18, 1995, in NLRC RB-IV-5-6683-94-C, which reversed the Labor Arbiter's finding that private respondent is guilty of illegal dismissal.

Petitioner was hired as security guard by private respondent on December 30, 1993. His employment was covered by a contract renewable monthly based upon his "passing the company standard."

On April 13, 1994, about 1:00 o'clock in the afternoon, the vehicle of private respondent carrying petitioner and four other security guards on board, swerved and crashed against a fence of the...