G.R. No. 141600 -

Ruling

WHEREFORE, the appealed Decision is hereby SET ASIDE and a new one entered ordering respondent to: Immediately reinstate complainants to their former positions without loss of seniority rights and privileges; and Pay them full backwages from the time they were dismissed up to the time they are actually reinstated. [2] The private respondent's motion for reconsideration having been denied by the NLRC, the private respondent filed a petition for certiorari [3] assailing the above-quoted decision with the Supreme Court which rendered judgment on September 9, 1996, [4] the decretal portion of which reads: WHEREFORE, the foregoing considered, the assailed Decision is hereby SET ASIDE and a new one rendered holding that petitioner has failed to discharge its burden of proof in the instant case and therefore ORDERING the reinstatement of private respondents as regular employees of petitioner, without loss of seniority rights and privileges and with payment of backwages from the day they were dismissed up to the time they are actually reinstated. No costs. SO ORDERED.