G.R. No. 177647 - U-BIX CORPORATION AND EDILBERTO B. BRAVO, VS. VALERIE ANNE H. HOLLERO.D E C I S I O N - Supreme Court E-Library

Ruling

WHEREFORE, judgment is hereby rendered as follows: in NLRC-NCR Case No. 00-05-03696-97 Declaring the dismissal of respondent Valerie Anne H. Hollero to be valid and legal, and Ordering said respondent Valerie Anne H. Hollero to pay complainant U-Bix Corporation the amount of P187,510.00 with interest at 12% per annum, until fully paid, as discussed above. B. in NLRC NCR Case No. 00-08-05988-97 - Dismissing complainant Valerie Anne H. Hollero's complaint for illegal dismissal and money claims for lack of merit. [11] (Underscoring supplied) On appeal before the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) (docketed as NLRC NCR CA No. 018999-99), [12] the NLRC reversed the Labor Arbiter's decision. Finding that reinstatement was not feasible due to strained relations, [13] it awarded respondent backwages and separation pay. Thus it disposed: WHEREFORE, premises considered, the assailed decision dated February 8, 1999 is hereby REVERSED and SET ASIDE and a new one entered as follows: Dismissing the complaint of the respondent-appellee U-BIX CORPORATION, in NLRC NCR Case No. 00-05-03696-97 for lack of jurisdiction ; and, Finding the dismissal of complainant-appellant Valerie Anne H. Hollero in NLRC NCR Case No. 00-08-05988-97 to be illegal thereby ordering respondents-appellees U-BIX CORPORATION/Edilberto B. Bravo to pay the former the following: 1. Backwages P520,000.00 2. Separation Pay 60,000.00; and Total P580,000.00 All other claims for damages are dismissed for insufficiency of evidence. [14] (Underscoring supplied) Petitioners' Motion for Reconsideration [15] having been denied by the NLRC, they filed a Petition for Certiorari (with application for issuance of temporary restraining order and/or writ of preliminary injunction) [16] before the Court of Appeals which, by Decision [17] of January 8, 2007, dismissed the same, disposing as follows: WHEREFORE, the petition is DISMISSED. The assailed NLRC Resolutions dated July 12, 1999 and March 14, 2000 in NLRC NCR CA No. 018999-99 are hereby AFFIRMED with the clarification that NLRC-NCR Case No. 00-05-03696-97 is dismissed for lack of merit instead of lack of jurisdiction . SO ORDERED.