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Re: Letter· of Court of Appeals Justice Vicente S.E. Veloso for Entitlement to Longevity Pay for His Services as Commission Member III of the National Labor Relations Commission [CONCURRING and DISSENTING OPINION, LEONARDO-DE CASTRO, J.]

A.M. No. 12-8-07-CA Re: Letter· of Court of Appeals Justice Vicente S.E. Veloso for Entitlement to Longevity Pay for His Services as Commission Member III of the National Labor Relations Commission x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - x A.M. No. 12-9-5-SC Re: Computation of Longevity Pay of Court of Appeals Justice Angelita A. Gacutan x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - x A.M. No. 13-02-07-SC Re: Request of Court of Appeals Justice Remedios A. Salazar-Fernando that Her Services as MTC Judge and as COMELEC Commissioner be considered as Part of Her Judicial Service and Included in the computation/adjustment of Her longevity pay

A.M. No. 12-8-07-CA | 2015-06-16

CONCURRING and DISSENTING OPINION
 
LEONARDO-DE CASTRO, J.:
 
Justice requires that every person be given his or her due under the law. Thus, when the law seeks to treat two classes similarly, the courts should treat them similarly. Courts should neither create distinctions nor impose conditions. Corollarily when the law treats two classes differently, courts should regard them dissimilarly.
 
These are the underlying considerations of this opinion on the matter of the requests of Associate Justices Vicente S.E. Veloso, Angelita A.Gacutan, and Remedios A. Salazar-Fernando of the Court of Appeals for the application in their...