Back

Gloria Artiaga Vs. Siliman University and Siliman University Medical Center

GLORIA ARTIAGA, Petitioner, versus SILIMAN UNIVERSITY and SILIMAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER/SILIMAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION, INC., Respondents.

G.R. No. 178453 | 2009-04-16

D E C I S I O N


CARPIO MORALES, J.:

Respondent Siliman University Medical Center (SUMC) hired Gloria Artiaga (petitioner) in June 1978.

On September 13, 1998, petitioner, then Credit and Collection Officer, resigned from SUMC by letter of even date reading:

I am writing this letter of explanation with a broken spirit and in distress[ed] heart as if myself broken to pieces and I asked God to be my refuge in this time of tribulation. I am not this bad as you and others may think of me. I pray to Him to listen [to] my prayers to let me stand again. The people in the whole community condemned me.

I committed errors and mistakes in the...