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Malayan Employees Association-FFW and Rodolfo Mangalino Vs. Malayan Insurance Company, Inc.

MALAYAN EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION-FFW and RODOLFO MANGALINO, Petitioners, versus MALAYAN INSURANCE COMPANY, INC., Respondent

G.R. No. 181357 | 2010-02-02

D E C I S I O N


BRION, J.:

The petitioner Malayan Employees Association-FFW (union) asks us in this petition for certiorari,[1] to set aside the June 26, 2007 decision[2] and the November 29, 2007 resolution[3] of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. SP No. 80691, ruling that the suspension imposed by the respondent Malayan Insurance Company, Inc. (company) on union member Rodolfo Mangalino (Mangalino) is valid. Mangalino was suspended for taking a union leave without the prior authority of his department head and despite a previous disapproval of the requested leave.

BACKGROUND FACTS

The union is the exclusive bargaining agent of the...