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Arsenio S. Quiambao Vs. Manila Electric Company

ARSENIO S. QUIAMBAO, Petitioner, versus MANILA ELECTRIC COMPANY, Respondent

G.R. No. 171023 | 2009-12-18

D E C I S I O N


DEL CASTILLO, J.:

The liberality of the law can never be extended to the unworthy and undeserving. In several instances, the policy of social justice has compelled this Court to accord financial assistance in the form of separation pay to a legally terminated employee. This liberality, however, is not without limitations. Thus, when the manner and circumstances by which the employee committed the act constituting the ground for his dismissal show his perversity or depravity, no sympathy or mercy of the law can be invoked.

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