THIRD DIVISION
[G.R. No. 113907. April 20, 2001]
MALAYANG SAMAHAN NG MGA MANGGAGAWA SA M. GREENFIELD
(MSMG-UWP), ITS PRESIDENT BEDA MAGDALENA VILLANUEVA, MARIO DAGANIO, DONATO
GUERRERO, BELLA P. SANCHEZ, ELENA TOBIS, RHODA TAMAYO, LIWAYWAY MALLILIN, ELOISA SANTOS, DOMINADOR REBULLO, JOSE
IRLAND, TEOFILA QUEJADA, VICENTE SAMONTINA, FELICITAS DURIAN, ANTONIO POLDO,
ANGELINA TUGNA, SALVADOR PENALOSA, LUZVIMINDA TUBIG, ILUMINADA RIVERA,
ROMULO SUMILANG, NENITA BARBELONIA, LEVI BASILIA, RICARDO PALAGA, MERCY
ROBLES, LEODEGARIO GARIN, DOMINGO ECLARINAL, MELCHOR GALLARDO, MARCELO GARIN,
ROSALINA BAUTISTA, MARY ANN TALIGATOS, ALEJANDRO SANTOS, ANTONIO FRAGA, LUZ
GAPULTOS, MAGDALENA URSUA, EUGENIO ORDAN, LIGAYA MANALO, PEPITO DELA PAZ,
PERLITA DIMAQUIAT, MYRNA VASQUEZ, FLORENTINA SAMPAGA, ARACELI FRAGA, MAXIMINA
FAUSTINO, MARINA TAN, OLIGARIO LOMO, PRECILA EUSEBIO, SUSAN ABOGANO, CAROLINA
MANINANG, GINA GLIFONIA, OSCAR SOTTO, CELEDONA MALIGAYA, EFREN VELASQUEZ, DELIA
ANOVER, JOSEPHINE TALIMORO, MAGDALENA TABOR, NARCISA SARMIENTO, SUSAN MACASIEB,
FELICIDAD SISON, PRICELA CARTA, MILA MACAHILIG, CORAZON NUNALA, VISITACION
ELAMBRE, ELIZABETH INOFRE, VIOLETA BARTE, LUZVIMINDA VILLOSA, NORMA SALVADOR,
ELIZABETH BOGATE, MERLYN BALBOA, EUFRECINA SARMIENTO, SIMPLICIA BORLEO,
MATERNIDAD DAVID, LAILA JOP, POTENCIANA CULALA, LUCIVITA NAVARRO, ROLANDO
BOTIN, AMELITA MAGALONA, AGNES CENA, NOLI BARTOLAY, DANTE AQUINO, HERMINIA
RILLON, CANDIDA APARIJADO, LYDIA JIMENEZ, ELIZABETH ANOCHE, ALDA MURO, TERESA
VILLANUEVA, TERESITA RECUENCO, ELIZA SERRANO, ESTELLA POLINAR, GERTRUDES NUNEZ,
FELIPE BADIOLA, ROSLYN FERNANDEZ, OSCAR PAGUTA, NATIVIDAD BALIWAS, ELIZABETH
BARCIBAL, CYNTHIA ESTELLER, TEODORA SANTOS, ALICIA PILAR, MILA PATENO, GLORIA
CATRIZ, MILA MACAHILIG, ADELAIDA DE LEON, ROSENDO EDILO, ARSENIA ESPIRITU,
NUMERIANO CABRERA, CONCEPSION ARRIOLA, PAULINA DIMAPASOK, ANGELA SANGCO,
PRESILA ARIAS, ZENAIDA NUNES, EDITHA IGNACIO, ROSA GUIRON, TERESITA CANETA,
ALICIA ARRO, TEOFILO RUWETAS, CARLING AGCAOILI, ROSA NOLASCO, GERLIE PALALON,
CLAUDIO DIRAS, LETICIA ALBOS, AURORA ALUBOG, LOLITA ACALEN, GREGORIO ALIVIO,
GUILLERMO ANICETA, ANGELIE ANDRADA, SUSAN ANGELES, ISABELITA AURIN, MANUELA
AVELINA, CARLING AGCAOILI, TERESITA ALANO, LOLITA AURIN, EMMABETH ARCIAGA,
CRESENCIA ACUNA, LUZVMINDA ABINES, FLORENCIA ADALID, OLIVIA AGUSTIN, EVANGELINE
ALCORAN, ROSALINA ALFERES, LORNA AMANTE, FLORENTINA AMBITO, JULIETA AMANONCO,
CARMEN AMARILLO, JOSEFINA AMBAGAN, ZENAIDA ANAYA, MARIA ANGLO, EDITHA ANTA ZO,
MARY JANE ANTE, ANDREA AQUINO, ROWENA ARABIT, MARIETA ARAGON, REBECCA ARCENA,
LYDIA ARCIDO, FERNANDO ARENAS, GREGORIO ARGUELLES, EDITHA ARRIOLA, EMMA
ATIENZA, EMMA ATIENZA, TEODY ATIENZA, ELIZABETH AUSTRIA, DIOSA AZARES, SOLIDA
AZAINA, MILAGROS BUAG, MARIA BANADERA, EDNALYN BRAGA, OFELIA BITANGA,
FREDISMINDA BUGUIS, VIOLETA BALLESTEROS, ROSARIO BALLADJAY, BETTY BORIO, ROMANA
BAUTISTA, SUSARA BRAVO, LILIA BAHINGTING, ENIETA BALDOZA, DAMIANA BANGCORE,
HERMINIA BARIL, PETRONA BARRIOS, MILAGROS BARRAMEDA, PERLA BAUTISTA, CLARITA
BAUTISTA, ROSALINA BAUTISTA, ADELINA BELGA, CONSOLACION BENAS, MARIA BEREZO, MERCEDES
BEREBER, VIOLETA BISCOCHO, ERNESTO BRIONES, ALVINA BROSOTO, AGUSTINA BUNYI,
CARMEN BUGNOT, ERLINDA BUENAFLOR, LITA BAQUIN, CONSEJO BABOL, CRISANTA BACOLOD,
CELIA DE BACTAT, MAZIMA BAGA, ELENA BALADAD, ROSARIO BALADJAY, AMALIA BALAGTAS,
ANITA BALAGTAS, MARIA BALAKIT, RUFINA BALATAN, REBECCA BALDERAMA, AMELIA
BALLESTER, BELEN BARQUIO, BERNANDITA BASILIDES, HELEN BATO, HELEN BAUTISTA,
ROMANA BAUTISTA, ALMEDA BAYTA, AVELINA BELAYON, NORMA DE BELEN, THELMA DE
BELEN, JOCELYN BELTRAN, ELENA BENITEZ, VIRGINIA BERNARDINO, MERLINA BINUYAG,
LINA BINUYA, BLESILDA BISNAR, SHIRLEY BOLIVAR, CRESENTACION MEDLO, JOCELYN
BONIFACIO, AMELIA BORBE, AMALIA BOROMEO, ZENAIDA BRAVO, RODRIGO BEULDA,
TERESITA MENDEZ, ELENA CAMAN, LALIANE CANDELARIA, MARRY CARUJANO, REVELINA CORANES,
MARITESS CABRERA, JUSTINA CLAZADA, APOLONIA DELA CRUZ, VICTORIA CRUZ, JOSEFINA
DELA CRUZ, MARITESS CATANGHAL, EDNA CRUZ, LUCIA DE CASTRO, JOSIE CARIASO,
OFELIA CERVANTES, MEDITA CORTADO, AMALIA CASAJEROS, LUCINA CASTILIO, EMMA
CARPIO, ANACORITA CABALES, YOLANDA CAMO, MILA CAMAZUELA, ANITA CANTO, ESTELA
CANCERAN, FEMENCIA CANCIO, CYNTHIA CAPALAD, MERLE CASTILLO, JESUSA CASTRO,
CECILIA CASTILLO, SILVERITA CASTRODES, VIVIAN CELLANO, NORMA CELINO,
TERESITA CELSO, GLORIA COLINA, EFIPANIA
CONSTANTINO, SALVACION CONSULTA, MEDITA CORTADO, AIDA CRUZ, MARISSA DELA CRUZ,
EDITO CORCILLES, JELYNE CRUZ, ROSA CORPOS, ROSITA CUGONA, ELSIE CABELLES, EMMA
CADUT, VICTORIA CALANZA, BARBARA CALATA, IMELDA CALDERON, CRISTINA CALIDGUID,
EMMALINDA CAMALON, MARIA CAMERINO, CARMENCITA CAMPO, CONNIE CANEZO, LOURDES
CAPANANG, MA. MILAGROS CAPILI, MYRNA T. CAPIRAL, FLOR SAMPAGA, SUSAN B. CARINO,
ROSARIO CARIZON, VIRGINIA DEL CARMEN, EMMA CARPIO, PRESCILA CARTA, FE CASERO,
LUZ DE CASTRO, ANNA CATARONGAN, JOSEFINA CASTISIMO, JOY MANALO, EMMIE CAWALING,
JOVITA CARA, MARINA CERBITO, MARY CAREJANO, ESTELA R. CHAVEZ, CONCEPCION
PARAJA, GINA CLAUDIO, FLORDELIZA CORALES, EDITO CORCIELER, ROSA C. CORROS,
AMELIA CRUZ, JELYNE CRUZ, WILFREDO DELA CRUZ, REINA CUEVAS, MARILOU DEJECES,
JOSEPHINE DESACULA, EDITHA DEE, EDITHA DIAZ, VIRGIE DOMONDON, CELSA DOROPAW,
VIOLETA DUMELINA, MARIBEL DIMATATAC, ELBERTO DAGANIO, LETECIA DAGOHOY, DINDO
DALUZ, ANGELITA DANTES, GLORIA DAYO, LUCIA DE CASTRO, CARLITA DE GUZMAN, CARMEN
DELA CRUZ, MERCY DE LEON, MARY DELOS REYES, MARIETA DEPILO, MATILDE DIBLAS,
JULIETA DIMAYUGA, TEODORA DIMAYUGA, YOLANDA DOMDOM, LUCITA DONATO, NELMA
DORADO, RITA DORADO, SUSAN DUNTON, HERMINIA SAN ESTEBAN, AMALI EUGENIO, OLIVIA
EUSOYA, ERNESTO ESCOBIN, EVELYN ESCUREL, LYDIA ESCOBIN, VICENTE E. ELOIDA,
ELENA EGAR, GLORIA ERENO, NORMA ESPIRIDION, ARSENIA ESPIRITU, AURORA ESTACIO,
DEMETRIA ESTONELO, MILAGROS FONSEGA, LYDIA FLORENTINO, JULIA FARABIER, TRINIDAD
FATALLA, IMELDA FLORES, JESSINA FRANCO, MA. CRISTINA FRIJAS, ESPECTACION
FERRER, BERDENA FLORES, LEONILA FRANCISCO, BERNARDA FAUSTINO, DOLORES FACUNDO,
CRESTITA FAMILARAN, EMELITA FIGUERAS, MA. VIRGINIA FLORENDO, AURORA FRANCISCO,
MA. JESUSA FRANCISCO, NENITA FUENTES, MARILOU GOLINGAN, JUANITA GUERRERO, LYDIA
GUEVARRA, SOCORRO GONZAGA, PATRICIA GOMEO, ROSALINDA GALAPIN, CARMELITA GALVEZ,
TERESA GLE, SONIA GONZALES, PRIMITA GOMEZ, THERESA GALUA, JOSEFINA GELUA,
BRENDA GONZAGA, FLORA GALLARDO, LUCINDA GRACILLA, VICTORIA GOZUM, NENITA GAMAO,
EDNA GARCIA, DANILO GARCIA, ROSARIO GIRAY, ARACELI GOMEZ, JOEMARIE GONZAGA,
NELIA GONZAGA, MARY GRANCE GOZON, CARMEN GONZALES, MERLITA GREGORIO, HERMINIA
GONZALES, CARLITA DE GUZMAN, MODESTA GABRENTINA, EDITHA GADDI, SALVACIO GALIAS,
MERLINDA GALIDO, MELINDA GAMIT, JULIETA GARCIA, EMELITA GAVINO, CHARITO GILLIA,
GENERA GONEDA, CRESTITA GONZALES, HERMINIA GONZALES, FRANCISCA GUILING, JULIAN
HERNANDEZ, GLECERIA HERRADURA, SUSANA HIPOLITO, NERISSA HAZ, SUSAN HERNAEZ,
APOLONIA ISON, SUSAN IBARRA, LUDIVINA IGNACIO, CHOLITA INFANTE, JULIETA
ITURRIOS, ANITA IBO, MIRASOL INGALLA, JULIO JARDINIANO, MERLITA JULAO, JULIETA
JULIAN, MARIBETH DE JOSE, JOSEPHINE JENER, IMELDA JATAP, JULIETA JAVIER, SALOME
JAVIER, VICTORIA JAVIER, SALVACION JOMOLO, EDNA JARNE, LYDIA JIMENEZ, TERESITA
DE JUAN, MARILYN LUARCA, ROSITA LOSITO, ROSALINA LUMAYAG, LORNA LARGA, CRESTETA
DE LEON, ZENAIDA LEGASPI, ADELAIDA LEON, IMELDA DE LEON, MELITINA LUMABI, LYDIA
LUMABI, ASUNCION LUMACANG, REGINA LAPIADRIO, MELANIA LUBUGUAN, EVANGELINE
LACAP, PELAGIA LACSI, LORNA LAGUI, VIRGIE LAITAN, VIRGINIA LEE, CRESTELITA DE
LEON, FELICISIMA LEONERO, DIOSA LOPE, ANGELITA LOPEZ, TERESITA LORICA, JUANITA
MENDIETA, JUANITA MARANQUEZ, JANET MALIFERO, INAS MORADOS, MELANIE MANING,
LUCENA MABANGLO, CLARITA MEJIA, IRENE MENDOZA, LILIA MORTA, VIGINIA MARAY,
CHARITO MASINAHON, FILMA MALAYA, LILIA MORTA, VIRGINIA MARAY, CHARITO
MASINAHON, FILMA MALAYA, LILIA MORTA, ROSITA MATIBAG, LORENZA MLINA, SABINA DEL
MUNDO, EDITHA MUYCO, NARCISA MABEZA, MA. FE MACATANGAY, CONCEPCION MAGDARAOG,
IMELDA MAHIYA, ELSA MALLARI, LIGAYA MANAHAN, SOLEDA MANLAPAS, VIRGINIA MAPA,
JOSEI MARCOS, LIBRADA MARQUEZ, VIRGINIA MAZA, JULIANITA MENDIETA, EDILBERTA
MENDOZA, IRENE MERCADO, HELEN MEROY, CRISTINA MEJARES, CECILIA MILLET, EMELITA
MINON, JOSEPHINE MIRANA, PERLITA MIRANO, EVANGELINE MISBAL, ELEANOR MORALES,
TERESITA MORILLA, LYDIA NUDO, MYRIAM NAVAL, CAROLINA NOLIA, ALICIA NUNEZ,
MAGDALENA NAGUIDA, ELSA NICOL, LILIA NACIONALES, MA. LIZA MABO, REMEDIOS
NIEVES, MARGARITA NUYLAN, TERESITA NIEVES, PORFERIA NARAG, RHODORA NUCASA,
CORAZON OCRAY, LILIA OLIMPO, VERONA OVERENCIA, FERMIN OSENA, FLORENCIA
OLIVAROS, SOLEDAD OBEAS, NARISSA OLIVEROS, PELAGIA ORTEGA, SUSAN ORTEGA,
CRISTINA PRENCIPE, PURITA PENGSON, REBECCA PACERAN, EDNA PARINA, MARIETA PINAT,
EPIFANIA PAJERLAN, ROSALINA PASIBE, CECILIA DELA PAZ, LORETA PENA, APOLONIA
PALCONIT, FRANCISCO PAGUIO, LYDIA PAMINTAHON, ELSIE PACALDO, TERESITA PADILLA,
MYRNA PINEDA, MERCEIDTA PEREZ, NOVENA PORLUCAS, TERESITA PODPOD, ADORACION
PORNOBI, ALICIA PERILLO, HELEN JOY PENDAL, LOURDES PACHECO, LUZVIMINDA PAGALA,
LORETA PAGAPULAN, FRANCISCO PAGUIO, PRISCO PALACA, FLORA PAMINTUAN, NOEMI
PARISALES, JOSEPHINE PATRICIO, CRISTINA PE BENITO, ANGELA PECO, ANGELITA PENA,
ESTER PENONES, NORMA PEREZ, MAURA PERSEVERANCIA, MARINA PETILLA, JOSIE PIA,
ZULVILITA PIODO, REBECCA PACERAN, CLARITA POLICARPIO, MAXIMO POTENTO, PORFIRIO
POTENTO, FLORDELIZA PUMARAS, FERNANDO QUEVEDO, JULIANA QUINDOZA, CHARITO
QUIROZ, CARMELITA ROSINO, RODELIA RAYONDOYON, FLORENCIA RAGOS, REBECCA ROSALES,
ROSALYN RIVERO, FRANCISCO RUIZ, FRANCIA ROSERO, EMELY RUBIO, EDILBERTO RUIO,
JUANA RUBY, RAQUEL REYES, MERCY ROBLES, ESTELA RELANO, ROSITA REYES NIMFA
RENDON, EPIFANIO RAMIRO, MURIEL REALCO, BERNARDITA RED, LEONITA RODIL, BENITA
REBOLA, DELMA REGALARIO, LENY REDILLAS, JULIETA DELA ROSA, FELICITAS DELA ROSA,
SUSAN RAFALLO, ELENA RONDINA, NORMA RACELIS, JOSEPHINE RAGEL, ESPERANZA
RAMIREZ, LUZVIMINDA RANADA, CRISTINA RAPINSAN, JOCELYN RED, ORLANDO REYES,
TERESITA REYES, ANGELITA ROBERTO, DELIA ROCHA, EDLTRUDES ROMERO, MELECIA
ROSALES, ZENAIDA ROTAO, BELEN RUBIS, FE RUEDA, SYLVIA SONGCAYAWON, CRISTINA
SANANO, NERCISA SARMIENTO, HELEN SIBAL, ESTELITA SANTOS, NORMA SILVESTRE,
DARLITA SINGSON, EUFROCINA SARMIENTO, MYRNA SAMSON, EMERLINA SADIA, LORNA
SALAZAR, AVELINA SALVADOR, NACIFORA SALAZAR, TITA SEUS, MARIFE SANTOS, GRACIA
SARMIENTO, ANGELITA SUMANGIL, ELIZABETH SICAT, MA. VICTORIA SIDELA, ANALITA
SALVADOR, MARITES SANTOS, VIRGINIA SANTOS, THELMA SARONG, NILDA SAYAT, FANCITA
SEGUNDO, FYNAIDA SAGUI, EDITHA SALAZAR, EDNA SALZAR, EMMA SALENDARIO, SOLEDAD
SAMSON, EDNA SAN DIEGO, TERESITA SAN GABRIEL, GERTRUDES SAN JOSE, EGLECERIA
OSANCHEZ, ESTRELLA SANCHEZ, CECILIA DELOS SANTOS, LUISA SEGOVIA, JOCELYN
SENDING ELENA SONGALIA, FELICITAS SORIANO, OFELIA TIBAYAN, AIDA TIRNIDA, MONICA
TIBAYAN, CRISTETA TAMBARAN, GLORIA TACDA, NENVINA, FELINA TEVES, ANTONINA DELA
TORRE, MAXIMA TANILON, NENA TABAT, ZOSIMA TOLOSA, MARITA TENOSO, IMELDA TANIO,
LUZ TANIO, EVANGELINE TAYO, JOSEFINA TINGTING, ARSENIA TISOY, MAGDALENA
TRAJANO, JOSEFINA UBALDE, GINA UMALI, IRMA VALENZUELA, FELY VALDEZ, PAULINA
VALEZ, ROSELITA VALLENTE, LOURDES VELASCO, AIDA VILLA, FRANCISCA VILLARITO,
ZENAIDA VISMONTE, DELIA VILLAMIEL, NENITA VASQUEZ, JOCELYN VILLASIS,
FERMARGARITA VARGAS, CELIA VALLE, MILA CONCEPCION VIRAY, DOMINGA VALDEZ,
LUZVIMINDA VOCINA, MADELINE VIVERO, RUFINA VELASCO, AUREA VIDALEON, GLORIA DEL
VALLE, THELMA VALLOYAS, CYNTHIA DELA VEGA, ADELA VILLAGOMEZ, TERESITA VINLUAN,
EUFEMIA VITAN, GLORIA VILLAFLORES, EDORACION VALDEZ, ANGELITA VALDEZ, ILUMINADA
VALENCI, MYRNA VASQUEZ, EVELYN VEJERAMO, TEODORA VELASQUEZ, EDAN VILLANUEVA,
PURITA VILLASENOR, SALVADOR WILSON, EMELINA YU, ADELFA YU, ANA ABRIGUE,
VIRGINIA ADOBAS, VICTORIA ANTIPUESTO, MERCEDITA CASTILLO, JOCELYN CASTRO,
CREMENIA DELA CRUZ, JOSEPHINE IGNACIO, MELITA ILILANGOS, LIGAYA LUMAYAT, DELIA
LUMBES, ROSITA LIBRADO, DELIA LAGRAMADA, GEMMA MAGPANTAY, EMILY MENDOZA, FIDELA
PANGANIBAN, LEONOR RIZALDO, ILUMINDA RIVERA, DIVINA SAMBAYAN, ELMERITA SOLAYAO,
NANCY SAMALA, JOSIE SUMARAN, LUZVIMINDA ABINES, ALMA ACOL, ROBERTO ADRIATICO,
GLORIA AGUINALDO, ROSARIO ALEYO, CRISTETA ALEJANDRO, LILIA ALMOGUERA, CARMEN
AMARILLO, TRINIDAD ARDANIEL, CERINA AVENTAJADO, ZENAIDA AVAYA, LOLITA ARABIS,
MARIA ARSENIA, SOFIA AGUINALDO, SALVE ABAD, JOSEFINA AMBANGAN EMILIA AQUINO,
JOSEFINA AQUINO, JULIANA AUSAN, AMERCIANA ACOSTA, CONCEPCION ALEROZA, DIANA
ADOVOS, FELY ADVINCULA, SEOMINTA ARIAS, JOSEPHINE ARCEDE, NORMA AMISTOSO,
PRESENTACION ALONOS, EMMA ATIENZA, LEONIDA AQUINO, ANITA ARILLON, ADELAIDA
ARELLANO, NORMA AMISTOSO, JOSEPHINE ARCEDE, SEMIONITA ARIAS, JOSEFINA BANTUG,
LOLITA BARTE, HERMINIA BASCO, MARGARITA BOTARDO, RUFINO BUGNOT, LOLITA
BUSTILLO, ISABEL BALAKIT, ROSARIO BARRERO, TESSIE BALBOS, NORMA BENISANO,
GUILLERMA BRUGES, BERNADETTE BARTOLOME, SHIRLEY BELMONTE, MERONA BELZA, AZUCENA
BERNALES, JOSE BASCO, NIMPHA BANTOG, BENILDA BUBAN, REGINA BUBAN, SALOME
BARRAMEDA, IRENE BISCO, FELICITAS BAUTISTA, VIOLETA BURA, LINA BINUYA, BIBIANA
BAARDE, ELSA BAES, ANASTACIA BELONZO, SONIA BENOYO, ELIZABETH BACUNGAN,
PATRICIA BARRAMEDA, ERLINDA BARCELONA, EMMA BANICO, APOLONIA BUNAO, LUCITA
BOLEA, PACIFICA BARCELONA, EDITHA BASIJAN, RENITA BADAMA, ELENA BALADAD,
CRESENCIA BAJO, BERNADITA BASILID, MELINDA BEATO, YOLANDA BATANES, EDITHA
BORILLA, ANITA BAS, ELSA CALIPUNDAN, MARIA CAMERINO, VIRGINIA CAMPOSANO,
MILAGROS CAPILI, CARINA CARINO, EUFEMIA CASIHAN, NENITA CASTRO, FLORENCIA
CASUBUAN, GIRLIE CENTENO, MARIANITA CHIQUITO, IMELDA DELA CRUZ, TEODOSIA CONG,
TEOFILA CARACOL, TERESITA CANTA, IRENEA CUNANAN, JULITA CANDILOSAS, VIOLETA
CIERES, MILAGROS DELA CRUZ, FLOREPES CAPULONG, CARMENCITA CAMPO, MARILYN
CARILLO, RUTH DELA CRUZ, RITA CIJAS, LYDIA CASTOR, VIRGIE CALUBAD, EMELITA
CABERA, CRISTETA CRUZ, ERLINDA COGADAS, IMELDA CALDERON, SUSIE LUZ CEZAR,
ESTELA CHAVEZ, NORMA CABRERA, ELDA DAGATAN, LEONISA DIMACUNA, ERNA DUGTONG, FLORDELISA
DIGMA, VIRGILIO DADIOS, LOLITA DAGTA, ADELAIDA DORADO, CELSA DATUMANONG,
VIRGINIA DOCTOLERO, EDNA SAN DIEGO, JULIETA DANG, JULIETA DORANTINAO, LOLITA
DAGANO, JUDITH DIAZ, MARIA ENICANE, MARITA ESCARDE, ENRIMITA ESMAYOR, ROSARIO
EPIRITU, REMEDIOS EMBOLTORIO, IRENE ESTUITA, TERESITA ERESE, ERMELINDA ELEZO,
MARIA ESTAREJA, MERLITA ESQUERRA, YOLANDA FELICITAS, FRUTO FRANCIA, MARTHA
FRUTO, LILIA FLORES, SALVACION FORTALESA, JUDITH FAJARDO, SUSANA FERNANDO,
EDWIN FRANCISCO, NENITA GREGORY, ROSA CAMILO, MARIVIC GERRARDO, CHARITA
GOREMBALEM, NORMA GRANDE, DOLORES GUTIERREZ, CHARLIE GARCIA, LUZ GALVEZ,
ADELAIDA GAMILLA, LUZ GAPULTOS, ERLINDA GARCIA, HELEN GARCIA, ERLINDA GAUDIA,
FRANCISCA GUILING, MINTA HERRERA, ASUNCION HONOA, JUAN HERNANDEZ, LUCERIA ANNA MAE
HERNANDEZ, JULIANA HERNANDEZ, EDITHA IGNACIO, ANITA INOCENCIO, EULALIA INSORIO,
ESTELITA IRLANDA, MILAGROS IGNACIO, LINDA JABONILLO, ADELIMA JAEL, ROWENA
JARABJO, ROBERT JAVILINAR, CLARITA JOSE, CARMENCITA JUNDEZ, SOFIA LALUCIS,
GLORIA LABITORIA, ANGELITA LODES, ERLINDA LATOGA, EVELYN LEGASPI, ROMEO
LIMCHOCO, JESUS LARA, ESTRELLA DE LUNA, LORETA LAREZA, JOSEPHINE ALSCO, MERCY
DE LEON, CONSOLACION LIBAO, MARILYN LIWAG, TERESITA LIZAZO, LILIA MACAPAGAL,
SALVACION MACAREZA, AMALIA MADO, TERESITA MADRIAGA, JOVITA MAGNAYE, JEAN
MALABAD, FRANCISCA MENDOZA, NELCITA MANGANTANG, TERESITA NELLA, GENEROZA
MERCADO, CRISTETA MOJANA, BERNARDA MONGADO, LYDIA MIRANDA, ELISA MADRILEJOS,
LOIDA MAGSINO, AMELIA MALTO, JULITA MAHIBA, MYRNA MAYORES, LUISA MARAIG,
FLORENCIA MARAIG, EMMA MONZON, IMELDA MAGDANGAN, VICTORIA MARTIN, NOEMI
MANGUILLO, BASILIZA MEDINA, VICTORIO MERCADO, ESTELA MAYPA, EMILIA MENDOZA,
LINA MAGPANTAY, FELICIANA MANLOLO, ELENA MANACOP, WILMA MORENO, JUANA MENDOZA,
EVELYN DEL MUNDO, ROSIE MATUTINA, MATILDE MANALO, TERESITA MENDEZ, FELIPINA
MAGONCIA, MARIA MANZANO, LIGAYA MANALO, LETICIA MARCHA, MARINA MANDIGMA,
LETICIA MANDASOC, PRESCILLA MARTINEZ, JULIA MENDOZA, PACITA MAGALLANES,
ANGELINA MARJES, SHIRLEY MELIGRITO, IRENE MERCADO, ELISA MAATUBANG, MARCELINA
NICOLAS, AGUSTINA NICOLAS, ROSA NOLASCO, WILMA NILAYE, VIOLETA ORACION, ANGELA
OSTAYA, JUANITA OSAYOS, MAGDALENA OCAMPO, MARDIANA OCTA, ROSELA OPAO, LIBRADA
OCAMPO, YOLANDA OLIVER, MARCIA ORLANDA, PAGDUNAN, RITA PABILONA, MYRA PALACA,
BETHLEHEM PALINES, GINA PALIGAR, NORMA PALIGAR, DELMA PEREZ, CLAUDIA PRADO,
JULIE PUTONG, LUDIVINA PAGSALINGAN, MERLYN PANALIGAN, VIOLETA PANAMBITAN, NOREN
PAR, ERLINDA PARAGAS, MILA PARINO, REBECCA PENAFLOR, IMELDA PENAMORA,
JERMICILLIN PERALTA, REBECCA PIAPES, EDITHA PILAR, MAROBETH PILLADO, DIOSCORO
PIMENTEL, AURORA LAS PINAS, EVANGELINA PINON, MA. NITA PONDOC, MA. MERCEDES
PODPOD, ANGELITO PANDEZ, LIGAYA PIGTAIN, LEONILA QUIAMBAO, ELENA QUINO,
MARITESS QUIJANO, CHOLITA REBUENO, LOLITA REYES, JOCELYN RAMOS, ROSITA RAMIREZ,
ELINORA RAMOS, ISABEL RAMOS, ANNABELLE RESURRECCION, EMMA REYES, ALILY ROXAS,
MARY GRACE DELOS REYES, JOCELYN DEL ROSARIO, JOSEFINA RABUSA, ANGELITA ROTAIRO,
SAMCETA ROSETA, EDERLINA RUIZ, ZENAIDA ROSARIO, BENITA REBOLA, ROSITA REVILLA,
ROSITA SANTOS, ROWENA SALAZAR, EMILYN SARMIENTO, ANA SENIS, ELOISA SANTOS,
NARCISA SONGLIAD, ELMA SONGALIA, AMPARA SABIO, JESSIE SANCHEZ, VIVIAN SAMILO,
GLORIA SUMALINOG, ROSALINA DELOS SANTOS, MARIETA SOMBRERO, HELEN SERRETARIO,
TEODORO SULIT, BELLA SONGUINES, LINDA SARANTAN, ESTELLA SALABAR, MILAGROS
SISON, GLORIA TALIDAGA, CECILIA TEODORO, ROMILLA TUAZON, AMELITA TABULAO,
MACARIA TORRES, LUTGARDA TUSI, ESTELLA TORREJOS, VICTORIA TAN, MERLITA DELA
VEGA, WEVINA ORENCIA, REMEDIOS BALECHA, TERESITA TIBAR, LACHICA LEONORA, JULITA
YBUT, JOSEFINA ZABALA, WINNIE ZALDARIAGA, BENHUR ANTENERO, MARCELINA ANTENERO,
ANTONINA ALAPAN, EDITHA ANTOZO, ROWENA ARABIT, ANDRA AQUINO, TERESITA ANGULO,
MARIA ANGLO, MYRNA ALBOS, ELENITA AUSTRIA, ANNA ABRIGUE, VIRGINIA ADOBAS,
VICTORIA ANTIPUESTO, REMEDIOS BOLECHE, MACARIA BARRIOS, THELMA BELEN, ESTELLA
BARRETTO, JOCELYN CHAVEZ, VIRGINIA CAPISTRANO, BENEDICTA CINCO, YOLLY CATPANG,
REINA CUEVAS, VICTORIA CALANZA, FE CASERO, ROBERTA CATALBAS, LOURDES CAPANANG,
CLEMENCIA CRUZ, JOCELYN COSTO, MERCEDITA CASTILLO, EDITHA DEE, LUCITA DONATO,
NORMA ESPIRIDION, LORETA FERNANDEZ, AURORA FRANCISCO, VILMA FAJARDO, MODESTA
GABRENTINA, TERESITA GABRIEL, SALVACION GAMBOA, JOSEPHINE IGNACIO, SUSAN
IBARRA, ESPERANZA JABSON, OSCAR JAMBARO, ROSANNA JARDIN, CORAZON JALOCON,
ZENAIDA LEGASPI, DELLA LAGRAMADA, ROSITA LIBRANDO, LIGAYA LUMAYOT, DELIA
LUMBIS, LEONORA LANCHICA, RELAGIA LACSI, JOSEFINA LUMBO, VIOLETA DE LUNA,
EVELYN MADRID, TERESITA MORILLA, GEMMA MAGPANTAY, EMILY MENDOZA, IRENEA MEDINA,
NARCISA MABEZA, ROSANNA MEDINA, DELIA MARTINEZ, ROSARIO MAG-ISA, EDITHA
MENDOZA, EDILBERTA MENDOZA, FIDELA PANGANIBAN, OFELIA PANGANIBAN, AZUCENA
POSTGO, LOURDES PACHECO, LILIA PADILLA, MARISSA PEREZ, FLORDELIZA PUMARES, LUZ
REYES, NORMA RACELIS, LEONOR RIZALDO, JOSIE SUMASAR, NANCY SAMALA, EMERLITA
SOLAYAO, MERCEDITA SAMANIEGO, BLANDINA SIMBULAN, JOCELYN SENDING, LUISITA
TABERRERO, TERESITA TIBAR, ESTERLINA VALDEZ, GLORIA VEJERANO, ILUMINADA
VALENCIA, MERLITA DELA VEGA, VIRGIE LAITAN, JULIET VILLARAMA, LUISISTA OCAMPO,
NARIO ANDRES, ANSELMA TULFO, GLORIA MATEO, FLANIA MENDOZA, CONNIE CANGO, EDITHA
SALAZAR, MYRNA DELOS SANTOS, TERESITA SERGIO, CHARITO GILLA, FLORENTINA
HERNAEZ, BERNARDINO VIRGINIA, AMPO ANACORITA, SYLVIA POASADAS, ESTRELLA
ESPIRITU, CONCORDIA LUZURIAGA, MARINA CERBITO, EMMA REYES, NOEMI PENISALES,
CLARITA POLICARPIO, BELEN BANGUIO, HERMINIA ADVINCULA, LILIA MORTA, REGINA
LAPIDARIO, LORNA LARGA, TERESITA VINLUAN, MARITA TENOSO, NILDS SAYAT, THELMA
SARONG, DELMA REGALIS, SUSAN RAFAULO, ELENA RONDINA, MYRNA PIENDA, VIOLETA
DUMELINA, FLORENCIA ADALID, FILMA MELAYA, ERLINDA DE BAUTISTA, MATILDE DE BLAS,
DOLORES FACUNDO, REBECCA LEDAMA, MA. FE MACATANGAY, EMELITA MINON, NORMA
PAGUIO, ELIZA VASQUEZ, GLORIA VILLARINO, MA. JESUS FRANCISCO, TERESITA GURPIDO,
LIGAYA MANALO, FE PINEDA, MIRIAM OCMAR, LUISA SEGOVIA, TEODY ATIENZA, SOLEDA
AZCURE, CARMEN DELA CRUZ, DMETRIA ESTONELO, MA. FLORIDA LOAZNO, IMELDA MAHIYA,
EDILBERTA MENDOZA, SYLVIA POSADAS, SUSANA ORTEGA, JOSEPHINE D. TALIMORO,
TERESITA LORECA, ARSENIA TISOY, LIGAYA MANALO, TERESITA GURPIO, FE PINEDA, and
MARIA JESUS FRANCISCO, petitioners, vs. HON. CRESENCIO J. RAMOS,
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, M. GREENFIELD (B), INC., SAUL TAWIL,
CARLOS T. JAVELOSA, RENATO C. PUANGCO, WINCEL LIGOT, MARCIANO HALOG, GODOFREDO
PACENO, SR., GERVACIO CASILLANO, LORENZO ITAOC, ATTY. GODOFREDO PACENO, JR.,
MARGARITO CABRERA, GAUDENCIO RACHO, SANTIAGO IBANEZ, AND RODRIGO AGUILING, respondents.
R E S O L U T I O N
GONZAGA-REYES,
J.:
Before us is petitioners’
motion for partial reconsideration of our decision dated February 28, 2000,[1] the dispositive portion of which reads:[2]
“WHEREFORE, the petition is GRANTED; the decision of the National Labor Relations Commission in Case No. NCR-00-09-04199-89 is REVERSED and SET ASIDE; and the respondent company is hereby ordered to immediately reinstate the petitioners to their respective positions. Should reinstatement be not feasible, respondent company shall pay separation pay of one month salary for every year of service. Since petitioners were terminated without the requisite written notice at least 30 days prior to their termination, following the recent ruling in the case of Ruben Serrano vs. National Labor Relations Commission and Isetann Department Store, the respondent company is hereby ordered to pay full backwages to petitioner-employees while the Federation is also ordered to pay full backwages to petitioner-union officers who were dismissed upon its instigation. Since the dismissal of petitioners was without cause, backwages shall be computed from the time the herein petitioner employees and union officers were dismissed until their actual reinstatement. Should reinstatement be not feasible, their backwages shall be computed from the time petitioners were terminated until the finality of this decision. Costs against the respondent company.
SO ORDERED.”
Petitioners allege that
this Court committed patent and palpable error in holding that “the respondent
company officials cannot be held personally liable for damages on account of
employees’ dismissal because the employer corporation has a personality separate
and distinct from its officers who merely acted as its agents” whereas the
records clearly established that respondent company officers Saul Tawil, Carlos
T. Javelosa and Renato C. Puangco have caused the hasty, arbitrary and unlawful
dismissal of petitioners from work; that as top officials of the respondent
company who handed down the decision dismissing the petitioners, they are
responsible for acts of unfair labor practice; that these respondent corporate
officers should not be considered as mere agents of the company but the
wrongdoers. Petitioners further contend
that while the case was pending before the public respondents, the respondent
company, in the early part of February 1990, began removing its machineries and
equipment from its plant located at Merville Park, Paranaque and began
diverting jobs intended for the regular employees to its
sub-contractor/satellite branches;[3] that the respondent company officials are also the
officers and incorporators of these satellite companies as shown in their
articles of incorporation and the general information sheet. They added that during their ocular
inspection of the plant site of the respondent company, they found that the
same is being used by other unnamed business entities also engaged in the
manufacture of garments. Petitioners
further claim that the respondent company no longer operates its plant site as
M. Greenfield thus it will be very difficult for them to fully enforce and
implement the court’s decision. In
their subsequent motion filed on the same day, petitioners also pray for the
(A) inclusion of the names of employees listed in Annex “D” of the petition
which they inadvertently omitted in the caption of the case, to wit: (1)
Amores, Imelda (2) Andres, Josefina (3)Aragon, Felicidad (4) Arias, Genevive
(5) Arroyo, Salvacion (6) Arceo, Elizabeth (7) Anonuevo, Monica (8) Abellada,
Josefina (9) Advincula, Harmelina (10) Ajayo, Rosario (11) Alilay, Marilyn (12)
Almario, Anliza (13) Almario, Angelita (14) Almazan, Marilou (15) Almonte,
Rosalina (16) Alvaran, Marites (17) Alvarez, Edna (18) Ampo, Anacorita (19) Aquino, Leonisa (20) Bactat, Celia (21)
Carpio, Azucena G. (22) Cruz, Amelia (23) Glifonia, Eugenia (24) Escurel,
Evelyn F. (25) Hilario, Bonifacio G. (26) Payuan, Adoracion (27) Perez,
Mercedita (28) Rempis, Zenaida (29) Rosario, Margie deL (30) Salvador, Norma
(31) Sambayanan, Olivia (32) Tiaga, Aida (33) Torbela, Maria (34) Trono,
Nenevina (35) Varona, Asuncion (36) Vasquez, Elisa M. (37) Villanueva, Milagros
(38) Villapondo, Eva C. (39) Villon, Adeliza T.; (B) correction of their own typographical errors of the names
of employees appearing in the caption, which should be as follows: Manuela
Avelin, Belen Barquio, Lita Buquid, Violeta C. Ciervo, Marilou Dejocos,
Maximina Faustino, Primitiva Gomez, Myrna Palaca, Mercedita Perez, Rebecca
Poceran, Amorlita Rotairo, Emma Saludario, Tita Senis, Salvacion Wilson,[4] Anita Ahillon,
Gregoria Arguelles, Tessie Balbis, Betty Borja, Rodrigo Buella, Celsa Doropan,
Maria Enicame, Josephine Lasco, Julita Maniba, Juanita Osuyos, Juana Overencio,
Azucena Postigo, Cristina Rapinan, Roselyn Rivero, Edeltrudes Romero, Rodelia
Royandoyon, Fausta Segundo, Teodora Sulit, Elena Tebis, Paulina Valdez,[5] Susan Abogona,
Diana Adovas, Carmen Rosimo Basco,
Macaria Barrion, Maria Fe Berezo, Matilde de Blas, Rufina Bugnot, Aurora
Bravo, Jovita Cera, Precila Carta, Amalia Eugenio, Milagros Fonseca, Jose
Irlanda, Rowena Jarabejo, Regina Lapidario, Josie Marcos, Shirley Melegrito,
Noemi Menguillo, Teresita Nierves, Ricardo Paloga, Florenia Ragos, Leonila
Rodil, Emma Saludario, Narcisa Songuad, Josie Sumarsar, Evangeline Tayco;[6] (C) inclusion of
other employees similarly situated whose names were not included in Annex “D”
or in the caption of the case, to wit: (1) Dionisa Aban, (2) Alicia Aragon, (3)
Vicky Francia, (4) Nelita F. Gelongos, (5) Erlinda San Juan, (6) Erlinda Baby
Patungan Manalo, (7) Jenette Patungan,[7] (8) Blandina
Simbahan,[8] (9) Asuncion
Varona,[9] (10) Josefina
Andres, (11) Teresita Arales, (12) Alice Artikulo, (13) Esther Cometa, (14)
Eliza Cabiting, (15) Erlinda Dalut, (16) Edna Fernandez, (17) Emily Inocencio,
(18) Esperanza Jalocon, (19) Imelda Jarabe, (20) Mercedes Pabadora, (21)
Venerado Pastoral, (22) Cristina Perlas, (23) Margie del Rosario.[10]
In their Comment, the
Solicitor General interposes no objection to petitioners’ prayer for the
inclusion of omitted and similarly situated employees and the correction of
employees’ names in the caption of the case.
On the other hand,
private respondent company officials Carlos Javelosa and Remedios Caoleng, in
their Comment, state that considering that petitioners admitted having
knowledge of the fact that private respondent officers are also holding key
positions in the alleged satellite companies, they should have presented the
pertinent evidence with the public respondents; thus it is too late for
petitioners to require this Court to admit and evaluate evidence not presented
during the trial; that the supposed proof of satellite companies hardly
constitute newly discovered evidence.
Respondent officials interpose no objection to the inclusion of
employees inadvertently excluded in the caption of the case but object to the
inclusion of employees who were allegedly similarly situated for the reason
that these employees had not been parties to the case, hence should not be
granted any relief from the court.
Respondent company failed to file its comment.[11]
Petitioners’ contention
that respondent company officials should
be made personally liable for damages on account of petitioners’
dismissal is not impressed with merit.
A corporation is a juridical entity with legal personality separate and
distinct from those acting for and in its behalf and, in general from the
people comprising it.[12] The rule is that obligations incurred by the
corporation, acting through its directors, officers and employees, are its sole
liabilities.[13] True, solidary
liabilities may at times be incurred but only when exceptional circumstances
warrant such as, generally, in the following cases:[14]
1. When directors and trustees or, in appropriate cases, the officers of a corporation –
(a) Vote for or assent to patently unlawful acts of the corporation;
(b) act in bad faith or with gross negligence in directing the corporate affairs;
(c) are guilty of conflict of interest to the
prejudice of the corporation, its stockholders or members, and other persons.[15]
(2) When a director or officer has consented to the issuance of
watered stocks or who, having knowledge thereof, did not forthwith file with
the corporate secretary his written objection thereto.[16]
(3) When a director, trustee or officer has contractually agreed
or stipulated to hold himself personally and solidarily liable with the
Corporation.[17]
(4) When a director, trustee or officer is made, by specific
provision of law, personally liable for his corporate action.[18]
In labor cases,
particularly, the Court has held corporate directors and officers solidarily
liable with the corporation for the termination of employment of corporate
employees done with malice or in bad faith.[19] Bad faith or negligence is a question of fact and is
evidentiary.[20] It has been held
that bad faith does not connote bad judgement or negligence; it imports a
dishonest purpose or some moral obliquity and conscious doing of wrong; it
means breach of a known duty thru some motive or interest or ill will; it
partakes of the nature of fraud.[21]
In the instant case,
there is nothing substantial on record to show that respondent officers acted
in patent bad faith or were guilty of gross negligence in terminating the
services of petitioners so as to warrant personal liability. As held in
Sunio vs. NLRC,[22]
“We now come to the personal liability of petitioner, Sunio, who was made jointly and severally responsible with petitioner company and CIPI for the payment of the backwages of private respondents. This is reversible error. The Assistant Regional Director’s Decision failed to disclose the reason why he was made personally liable. Respondents, however, alleged as grounds thereof, his being the owner of one half (1/2) interest of said corporation, and his alleged arbitrary dismissal of private respondents.
Petitioner Sunio was impleaded in the Complaint in his capacity as General Manager of petitioner corporation. There appears to be no evidence on record that he acted maliciously or in bad faith in terminating the services of private respondents. His act, therefore, was within the scope of his authority and was a corporate act.
It is basic that a corporation is invested by law with a personality separate and distinct from those of the persons composing it as well as from that of any other legal entity to which it may be related. Mere ownership by a single stockholder or by another corporation of all or nearly all of the capital stock of a corporation is not of itself sufficient ground for disregarding the separate corporate personality. Petitioner Sunio, therefore, should nor have been made personally answerable for the payment of private respondents’ back salaries.”
Petitioners’ claim that
the jobs intended for the respondent company’s regular employees were diverted
to its satellite companies where the respondent company officers are holding
key positions is not substantiated and was raised for the first time in this
motion for reconsideration. Even
assuming that the respondent company officials are also officers and
incorporators of the satellite companies, such circumstance does not in itself
amount to fraud. The documents attached
to petitioners’ motion for reconsideration show that these satellite companies[23] were established prior to the filing of petitioners’
complaint against private respondents with the Department of Labor and
Employment on September 6, 1989 and that these corporations have different sets
of incorporators aside from the respondent officers and are holding their
principal offices at different locations.
Substantial identity of incorporators between respondent company and
these satellite companies does not necessarily imply fraud.[24] In such a case,
respondent company’s corporate personality remains inviolable.[25]
Although there were
earlier decisions of this Court in labor cases where corporate officers were held
to be personally liable for the payment of wages and other money claims to its
employees, we find those rulings inapplicable to this case. In La Campana Coffee Factory, Inc. vs.
Kaisahan ng Manggagawa sa La Campana (KKM),[26] La Campana Coffee Factory, Inc. and La Campana
Gaugau Packing were substantially owned by the same person. They had one office, one management, and a
single payroll for both businesses. The
laborers of the gaugau factory and the coffee factory were also
interchangeable, i.e., the workers in one factory worked also in the other
factory.
In Claparols vs. Court of
Industrial Relations,[27] the Claparol Steel and Nail Plant which was ordered
to pay its workers backwages, ceased operations on June 30, 1957 and was
succeeded on the next day, July 1, 1957 by the Claparols Steel
Corporation. Both corporations were
substantially owned and controlled by the same person and there was no break or
cessation in operations. Moreover, all
the assets of the steel and nail plant were transferred to the new corporation.
Notably, in the
above-mentioned cases, a new corporation was created, owned by the same family,
engaged in the same business and operating in the same compound, a situation
which is not obtaining in the instant case.
In AC Ransom Labor
Union-CCLU vs. NLRC,[28] the Court ruled that under the Minimum Wage Law, the
responsible officer of an employer corporation can be held personally liable
for non-payment of backwages for “if the policy of the law were otherwise, the
corporation employer would have devious ways for evading of back wages.” This
Court said:
“In the instant case, it would appear that RANSOM, in 1969, foreseeing the possibility or probability of payment of backwages to the 22 strikers, organized ROSARIO to replace RANSOM, with the latter to be eventually phased out if the 22 strikers win their case. RANSOM actually ceased operations on May 1, 1973, after the December 19, 1972 Decision of the Court of Industrial Relations was promulgated against RANSOM.”
Clearly, the situation in
AC Ransom does not obtain in this case, where the alleged satellite companies
were established even prior to the filing of petitioners’ complaint with the
Department of Labor.
Petitioners’ prayer for
the inclusion of employees listed in Annex “D” whose names were admittedly
inadvertently excluded in the caption of the case and for the correction of
typographical errors of the employees’ names appearing in the caption, is well
taken and is hereby granted. However,
petitioners’ prayer for the inclusion of other employees allegedly similarly
situated but whose names were not included either in Annex “D” or in the
caption of the case must be denied. A
judgment cannot bind persons who are not parties to the action.[29] It is elementary that strangers to a case are not
bound by the judgment rendered by the court and such judgment is not available
as an adjudication either against or in favor of such other person.[30] Petitioners failed
to explain why these employees allegedly similarly situated were not included
in the submitted list filed before us.
Such inclusion would be tantamount to a substantial amendment which
cannot be allowed at this late stage of the proceedings as it will definitely
work to the prejudice and disadvantage of the private respondents.[31]
WHEREFORE, petitioners’ motion for reconsideration is
partially granted so as to include the names of employees listed in Annex “D”
which petitioners inadvertently omitted in the caption of this case, to wit:
(1) Amores, Imelda (2) Andres, Josefina (3) Aragon, Felicidad (4) Arias,
Genevive (5) Arroyo, Salvacion (6) Arceo, Elizabeth (7) Anonuevo, Monica (8)
Abellada, Josefina (9) Advincula, Harmelina (10) Ajayo, Rosario (11) Alilay,
Marilyn (12) Almario, Anliza (13) Almario, Angelita (14) Almazan, Marilou (15) Almonte, Rosalina (16) Alvaran,
Marites (17) Alvarez, Edna (18) Ampo, Anacorita (19) Aquino, Leonisa (20)
Bactat, Celia (21) Carpio, Azucena G. (22) Cruz, Amelia (23) Glifonia, Eugenia
(24) Escurel, Evelyn F. (25) Hilario, Bonifacio G. (26) Payuan, Adoracion (27)
Perez, Mercedita (28) Rempis, Zenaida (29) Rosario, Margie del (30) Salvador,
Norma (31) Sambayanan, Olivia (32) Tiaga, Aida (33) Torbela, Maria (34) Trono,
Nenevina (35) Varona, Asuncion (36) Vasquez, Elisa M. (37) Villanueva, Milagros
(38) Villapondo, Eva C. (39) Villon, Adeliza T.; and to correct the typographical
errors of the names of employees appearing in the caption, as follows: Manuela
Avelin, Belen Barquio, Lita Buquid, Violeta C. Ciervo, Marilou Dejocos,
Maximina Faustino, Primitiva Gomez, Myrna Palaca, Mercedita Perez, Rebecca
Poceran, Amorlita Rotairo, Emma Saludario, Tita Senis, Salvacion Wilson, Anita
Ahillon, Gregoria Arguelles, Tessie Balbis, Betty Borja, Rodrigo Buella, Celsa
Doropan, Maria Enicame, Josephine Lasco, Julita Maniba, Juanita Osuyos, Juana
Overencio, Azucena Postigo, Cristina Rapinan, Roselyn Rivero, Edeltrudes
Romero, Rodelia Royandoyon, Fausta Segundo, Teodora Sulit, Elena Tebis, Paulina
Valdez, Susan Abogona, Diana Adovas, Carmen Rosimo Basco, Macaria Barrion,
Maria Fe Berezo, Matilde de Blas, Rufina Bugnot, Aurora Bravo, Jovita Cera,
Precila Carta, Amalia Eugenio, Milagros Fonseca, Jose Irlanda, Rowena Jarabejo,
Regina Lapidario, Josie Marcos, Shirley Melegrito, Noemi Menguillo, Teresita
Nierves, Ricardo Paloga, Florenia Ragos, Leonila Rodil, Emma Saludario, Narcisa
Songuad, Josie Sumarsar, Evangeline Tayco.
SO ORDERED.
Melo (Chairman), and Sandoval-Gutierrez, JJ., concur.
Vitug, J., reiterates his separate
opinion in Serrano v. NLRC (G.R. No. 117040, of Jan. 2000)
Panganiban, J., reiterates his separate
opinion in Serrano v. NLRC, G.R. No. 117040, 27 Jan. 2000.
[1] Justice
Purisima retired on October 28, 2000; the motion for reconsideration was
raffled to herein ponente.
[2] Rollo,
pp. 1691-1692; Decision, pp. 46-47.
[3] Hannahs
Garment Corporation, Design Logistics, Inc., Blusa Inc., Quality Garments,
Inc., Greenfield and Santiago, Subscriber’s Fashion Link Corporation, Danielles
Embroidery Inc.
[4] Motion
dated April 4, 2000.
[5] Supplemental
motion dated May 31, 2000.
[6] Compliance
dated October 13, 2000.
[7] Listed
in the motion dated April 4, 2000; Reiterated in the pleading dated August 3,
2000.
[8] Listed
in Annex “D”.
[9] Ibid.
[10] Supplemental
motion dated May 31, 2000.
[11] The
copy of the resolution dated July 5, 2000 requiring respondent M. Greenfield to inform the Court of the name and
address of its new counsel was returned
unserved with post master notation, “RTS, Moved left no address”, hence this
Court resolved that the July 5 resolution was deemed served on respondents.
[12] Santos
vs. NLRC, 254 SCRA 673.
[13] Ibid.
[14] MAM
Realty Development Corporation vs. NLRC, 244 SCRA 797 citing Tramat
Mercantile Inc. vs. CA, 238 SCRA 14.
[15] Ibid
citing Section 31, Corporation Code.
[16] Ibid
citing Section 65, Corporation Code.
[17] Ibid
citing De Asis and Co, Inc., vs. CA, 136 SCRA 599.
[18] Ibid
citing Article 144, Corporation Code;
see also Section 13, PD 115 (Trust Receipts Law).
[19] MAM
Realty Development Corp. vs. NLRC, supra; Sunio vs. NLRC,
127 SCRA 390; General Banking and Trust Co., et. al vs. CA and Manuel E. Batucan, 135 SCRA 569.
[20] National
Food Authority vs. CA, 311 SCRA 700.
[21] Board
of Liquidators vs. Kalaw, 20 SCRA
987, 1007.
[22] 127
SCRA 390, 397-39.
[23] Hannah’s
Garment Corp. incorporated in January 14, 1987, Annex “C”; Design Logistics in
February 1988, Annex “B”, Blusa Inc. amended articles of incorporation in
August 1988, Annex “D”; Fashion Link October 4, 1988, Annex “E”; Danielle’s
Embroidery in August 4, 1989, Annex “A”; S.R. Garments Inc. in August 7, 1989,
Annex “F” (Petitioners’ evidence).
[24] Del
Rosario vs. NLRC, 187 SCRA 777.
[25] Ibid.
[26] 93
Phil 160 cited in Del Rosario vs. NLRC, supra.
[27] 65
SCRA 613, cited in Del Rosario vs. NLRC, supra.
[28] 142
SCRA 269.
[29] Matuguina
Integrated Wood Products, Inc., vs. CA, 263 SCRA 490 citing Buazon vs.
CA, 220 SCRA 182.
[30] Ibid.
[31] Barfel
Development Corporation vs. CA, 223 SCRA 268 citing Shaffer vs. Palma, 22 SCRA 934;
Philippine Banking Corporation vs. IAC, et. al., 187 SCRA 257.