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Department of Labor and Employment, et al. Vs. Ruben Y Maceda

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT (DOLE) and NATIONAL MARITIME POLYTECHNIC (NMP), Petitioners, versus RUBEN Y. MACEDA, Respondent

G.R. No. 185112 | 2010-01-18

DECISION


ABAD, J.:

This case pertains to the importance of complying with the prescribed qualification standards, and the appropriate mode of assailing a decision of the Civil Service Commission (CSC).

The Facts and the Case

On June 28, 1989 respondent Ruben Y. Maceda, a deck marine officer, joined the National Maritime Polytechnic (NMP), a government school, with a permanent appointment as Instructor I. He rose to the permanent positions of Assistant Professor I and later Associate Professor I. He studied law in the meantime and passed the bar in 1996. He was later designated as Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the Maritime Training...