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Paulino Aliten vs. U-Need Lumber & Hardware, and Court of Appeals.

PAULINO ALITEN, Petitioner, versus U-NEED LUMBER & HARDWARE, and COURT OF APPEALS, Respondents.

G.R. No. 168931 | 2006-09-12

FIRST DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N 
 
CALLEJO, SR., J.: 
 
This is a petition for review on certiorari of the Amended Decision[1] of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. SP No. 50682, upholding the legality of Paulino Aliten's dismissal from his employment with U-Need Lumber and Hardware (U-Need). In the said decision, the appellate court deleted the award of backwages, while private respondent Marcelino Tan, as proprietor of U-Need, was ordered to pay petitioner P30,000.00 as nominal damages for non-compliance with the two-notice rule under the Labor Code of the Philippines, as amended. 
 
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