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Masing & Sons Development, et al. vs. Gregorio P. Rogelio

MASING AND SONS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION and CRISPIN CHAN, Petitioners,vs.GREGORIO P. ROGELIO, Respondent.

G.R. No. 161787 | 2011-07-27

FIRST DIVISION

D E C I S I O N

BERSAMIN, J.:

In any controversy between a laborer and his master, doubts reasonably arising from the evidence are resolved in favor of the laborer.

We re-affirm this principle, as we uphold the decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) that reversed the uniform finding that there existed no employment relationship between the petitioners, as employers, and the respondent, as employee, made by the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) and the Labor Arbiter (LA).

Petitioners Masing and Sons Development Corporation (MSDC) and Crispin Chan assail the October 24, 2003 decision, [1] whereby the CA reversed the...