A.M. No. 2004-02-SC - OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES, SUPREME COURT, COMPLAINANT, VS. NICOMEDES DELOS REYES, EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT I, JOSE D. SEVILLE, UTILITY WORKER II, DONALD EDRALIN F. NONATO, COURT STENOGRAPHER III, AND ROSARIO C. NATANAUAN, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT III. DECISION - Supreme

Ruling

WHEREFORE, the decision appealed from is hereby Reversed and Set Aside and a new one entered declaring the dismissal of complainants illegal. Accordingly, respondent company is hereby ordered to reinstate herein complainants to their respective former positions or equivalent positions without loss of seniority rights and to pay complainants backwages effective from the date of their termination up to the time they are actually reinstated but not exceeding three (3) years, less the amounts they received as separation pay. In addition, respondent company is ordered to pay complainants moral and exemplary damages fixed in the sum of P15,000.00 and P10,000.00 each, respectively, and attorneys fees equivalent to ten percent (10%) of the aggregate monetary award, subject to computation by the Arbitration Branch of origin at the execution stage. SO ORDERED.