G.R. NO. 160854 - BIG AA MANUFACTURER, VS. EUTIQUIO ANTONIO, JAY ANTONIO, FELICISIMO ANTONIO, AND LEONARDO ANTONIO, SR.,*. D I CI S I O N - Supreme Court E-Library

Ruling

WHEREFORE , the petition is DENIED for lack of merit. Petitioner thru its sole proprietor, Enrico Alejo, is ordered (1) to reinstate the four respondents to their former positions without loss of seniority rights and other privileges or to pay them separation pay in case reinstatement is no longer possible and (2) to pay them full backwages, in either case, computed from the time their compensation was withheld from them up to the time of their actual reinstatement or up to the time it is determined that reinstatement is no longer possible. The NLRC is also ordered to RECOMPUTE respondents, backwages and separation pay, as aforementioned, and execute the payments to respondents. Costs against the petitioner. SO ORDERED.