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Julito Sagales Vs. Rustan's Comnmercial Corporation

JULITO SAGALES, Petitioner, versus RUSTAN'S COMMERCIAL CORPORATION, Respondent.

G.R. No. 166554 | 2008-11-27

D E C I S I O N


REYES, R.T., J.:

Labor is property, and as such merits protection. The right to make it available is next in importance to the rights of life and liberty. It lies to a large extent at the foundation of most other forms of property, and of all solid individual and national prosperity.[1]

The exultation of labor by Mr. Justice Noah Haynes Swayne of the United States Supreme Court comes to the fore in this petition for review on certiorari. The employee questions the propriety of his dismissal after he was caught stealing 1.335 kilos of squid heads worth P50.00. He invokes his almost thirty-one (31) years of untarnished...