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PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

FIRST DIVISION

[G.R. No. 106600. March 29, 1996.]

COSMOS BOTTLING CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and GIL C. CASTRO, Respondents.

M . V . Ampil, Jr. & Associates for Petitioner.

The Solicitor General for public Respondent.

Public Attorney’s Office for Private Respondent.


SYLLABUS


LABOR AND SOCIAL LEGISLATION; TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT; PROJECT EMPLOYEES; THE MERE FACT THAT A PROJECT EMPLOYEE HAS WORKED ON THE SPECIAL PROJECT FOR MORE THAN ONE (1) YEAR DOES NOT NECESSARY CHANGE HIS STATUS AS PROJECT EMPLOYEE. — The mere fact that a project employee has worked on the specific project for more than one (1) year, does not necessary change his status as project employee and convert it to regular or permanent employment. For it is obvious that the second paragraph of Article 280 of the Labor Code, quoted above, providing that an employee who has served for at least one (1) year, shall be considered a regular employee, relates only to casual employees, not to project employees. Consequently, private respondent’s protestation that his period of employment had exceeded one year and hence must be converted into regular employment is completely baseless because being a project employee, he does not fall within the ambit of the pertinent provision above-stated. Clearly, therefore, private respondent being a project employee, or to use the correct term, seasonal employee, considering that his employment was limited to the installation and dismantling of petitioner’s annex plant machines after which there was no more work to do, his employment legally ended upon completion of the project. That being so, the termination of his employment cannot and should not constitute an illegal dismissal. Neither should it constitute retrenchment as private respondent was a seasonal employee whose services were already terminated on May 21, 1990 prior to the termination of the other regular employees of Cosmos by reason of retrenchment.


D E C I S I O N


KAPUNAN, J.:


Gil C Castro was employed by Cosmos Bottling Corporation for a specific period from September 51 1988 to October 41 1988. He was re-hired for another specific period from May 30, 1989 to November 6, 1989. 1

Having satisfactorily served the company for two (2) terms, Castro was recommended for reemployment with the company’s Maintenance Team for the Davao Project on November 22, 1989. 2 On December 22, 1989, he was re-hired and assigned to the Maintenance Division of the Davao Project tasked to install the private respondent’s annex plant machines in its Davao plant. 3

On May 21, 1990, Castro’s employment was terminated due to the completion of the special project.

Meanwhile, on May 27, 1990, Cosmos Bottling Corporation in valid exercise of its management prerogative terminated the services of some 228 regular employees by reason of retrenchment. 4 For obvious reasons, 5 Castro was not among the list of those regular employees whose services were terminated by reason of retrenchment or those who voluntarily resigned.

On May 25, 1990, Castro filed a complaint for illegal dismissal against Cosmos Bottling Corporation with the Labor Arbiter contending that being a regular employee, he could not be dismissed without a just and valid cause. The case was docketed as NLRC NCR Case No. 00-05-02902-90.

On its part, the company alleged that Castro was a mere project employee whose employment was coterminous with the project for which he was hired.

After the parties submitted their respective position papers, reply and rejoinder thereto, the Labor Arbiter rendered a decision on March 13, 1991 finding Castro a regular employee but ruling that his employment was validly terminated because of retrenchment. Hence, Castro was awarded 45-day separation pay, one (1) month salary as financial assistance and proportionate 13th month pay. The dispositive portion of the decision reads:chanrob1es virtual 1aw library

Premises considered, COSMOS is hereby directed to pay complainant’s compensation package in the total amount of P11,231.83 by reason of the retrenchment.

The charge of illegal dismissal is hereby DISMISSED for lack of merit.

SO ORDERED. 6

Both parties appealed the decision to the National Labor Relation Commission (NLRC) which rendered the assailed decision dated June 10, 1992, the decretal portion of which reads:chanrob1es virtual 1aw library

ACCORDINGLY, the decision appealed from is hereby modified to the effect that respondent is declared guilty of illegal dismissal and is hereby ordered to reinstate complainant to his former position as equivalent one without loss of seniority and other benefits and to pay him backwages computed from the time of his dismissal up to the time of his reinstatement.

SO ORDERED. 7

Cosmos Bottling Corporation’s motion for reconsideration of the above decision having been denied, the instant petition for certiorari was filed.

Petitioner argues that private respondent was a mere project employee and that his services were coterminous with the project, hence, may be terminated upon the end or completion of the project for which he was hired. Respondent NLRC and private respondent, on the other hand, maintain that private respondent is a regular employee of petitioner company because his job is necessary and desirable to the petitioner’s main business. The Office of the Solicitor General filed a Manifestation in Lieu of Comment and supported petitioner’s contention that private respondent is not a regular employee.

The pivotal issue therefore is whether or not private respondent Gil C. Castro is a regular employee or was a mere project employee of petitioner Cosmos Bottling Corporation.

After a careful examination of the records of the case, we find merit in the petition and hold that respondent NLRC gravely abused its discretion when it rendered the challenged decision finding private respondent a regular employee.

Article 280 of the Labor Code which defines regular, project and casual employment is applicable here. The same reads in full:chanrob1es virtual 1aw library

Article 280. Regular and Casual Employment. — The provisions of written agreement to the contrary notwithstanding and regardless of the oral agreement of the parties, an employment shall be deemed to be regular where the employee has been engaged to perform activities which are usually necessary or desirable in the usual business or trade of the employer, except where the employment has been fixed for a specific project or undertaking the completion or termination of which has been determined at the time of the engagement of the employee or where the work or services to be performed is seasonal in nature and the employment is for the duration of the season.

An employment shall be deemed to be casual if it is not covered by the preceding paragraph: Provided, That, any employee who has rendered at least one year of service whether such service is continuous or broken, shall be considered a regular employee with respect to the activity in which he is employed and his employment shall continue while such actually exists.

The first paragraph provides that regardless of any written or oral agreement to the contrary, an employee is deemed regular where he is engaged in necessary or desirable activities in the usual trade or business of the employer.

A project employee, on the other hand, has been defined to be one whose employment has been fixed for a specific project or undertaking, the completion or termination of which has been determined at the time of the engagement of the employee or where the work or service to be performed is seasonal in nature and the employment is for the duration of the season.

The second paragraph of the provision defines casual employees as those who do not fall under the definition of the first paragraph.

However, with respect to the first two kinds of employees, the principal test for determining whether an employee is a project employee or a regular employee is whether or not the project employee was assigned to carry out a "specific project or undertaking," the duration and scope of which were specified at the time the employee was engaged for that period.

In a recent case 8 decided by this Court, the nature of project employment was explained,. We noted that in the realm of business and industry, "project" could refer to at least two (2) distinguishable types of activities. First, a project could refer to a particular job or undertaking that is within the regular or usual business of the employer company, but which is distinct and separate, and identifiable as such, from the other undertakings of the company. Such job or undertaking begins and ends at determined or determinable times. Second, a project could also refer to a particular job or undertaking that is not within the regular business of the corporation. Such a job or undertaking must also be identifiably separate and distinct from the ordinary or regular business operations of the employer. The job or undertaking also begins and ends at determined or determinable times. 9

The case at bar presents what appears, to our mind, as a typical example of the first type. Petitioner Cosmos Bottling Corporation is a duly organized corporation engaged in the manufacture, production, bottling, sale and distribution of beverage. In the course of its business, it undertakes distinct identifiable projects as it did in the instant case when it formed special teams assigned to install and dismantle its annex plant machines in various plants all over the country. These projects are distinct and separate, and are identifiable as such, from its usual business of bottling beverage. Their duration and scope are made known prior to their undertaking and their specified goal and purpose are fulfilled once the projects are completed. When private respondent was initially hired for a period of one month and re-hired for another five months, and then subsequently re-hired for another five months, he was assigned to the petitioner’s Maintenance Division tasked with the- installation and dismantling of its annex plant machines. 10 Evidently, these projects or undertakings, the duration and scope of which had been determined and made known to private respondent at the time of his employment, can properly be treated as "projects" within the meaning of the "first" kind. Considered as such, the services rendered by private respondent hired therein for the duration of the projects may lawfully be terminated at the end or completion of the same. In the recent case of Archbuild Masters and Construction, Inc. v. NLRC, 11 we ruled accordingly:chanrob1es virtual 1aw library

It is not disputed that private respondent was a project employee of ARMACON. As such he was employed in connection with a particular project the completion of which had been determined at the time of his employment. Consequently, as a project employee of ARMACON, his employment may be terminated upon the completion of the project as there would be no further need for his services. Since a project employee’s work depends on the availability of projects, necessarily the duration of his employment is not permanent but coterminous with the work to which he is assigned. It would be extremely burdensome for the employer, who depends on the availability of projects, to carry him as a permanent employee and pay him wages even if there are no projects for him to work on. The rationale behind this is that once the project is completed it would be unjust to require the employer to maintain these employees in their payroll. To do so would make the employee a privileged retainer who collects payment from his employer for work not done. This is extremely unfair and amounts to labor coddling at the expense of management

Another observation worthwhile noting were the appreciable gaps between the periods of time private respondent was hired and re-hired. He was hired on September 5, 1988 for a period of one (1) month. He was re-hired on May 30, 1989 or almost seven (7) months after the termination of his first job. His second reemployment was no different. He was re-hired almost two (2) months after his first reemployment. 12 Certainly, the lengthy gaps between his employments, together with the fact that his services were contracted for specific undertakings, convincingly show that the services of private respondent were terminated upon completion of a particular project and were sought only when another one was undertaken

Moreover, the mere fact that a project employee has worked on the specific project for more than one (1) year, does not necessary change his status as project employee 13 and convert it to regular or permanent employment. For it is obvious that the second paragraph of Article 280 of the Labor Code, quoted above, providing that an employee who has served for at least one (1) year, shall be considered a regular employee, relates only to casual employees, not to project employees. 14 Consequently, private respondent’s protestation that his period of employment had exceeded one year 15 and hence must be converted into regular employment is completely baseless because being a project employee, he does not fall within the ambit of the pertinent provision above-stated.

Clearly, therefore, private respondent being a project employee, or to use the correct term, seasonal employee, considering that his employment was limited to the installation and dismantling of petitioners annex plant machines after which there was no more work to do, his employment legally ended upon completion of the project. 16 That being so, the termination of his employment cannot and should not constitute an illegal dismissal. Neither should it constitute retrenchment as private respondent was a seasonal employee whose services were already terminated on May 21, 1990 prior to the termination of the other regular employees of Cosmos by reason of retrenchment

WHEREFORE, premises considered the instant petition is given DUE COURSE and is hereby GRANTED. The judgment of respondent NLRC appealed from is hereby REVERSED and SET ASIDE. Consequently, the complaint for illegal dismissal against petitioner Cosmos Bottling Corporation is hereby DISMISSED.

SO ORDERED

Padilla, Bellosillo, Vitug and Hermosisima, Jr., JJ., concur.

Endnotes:



1. During these separate periods of employment, Castro contends that his duties included the following, viz: (a) filling of softdrinks in the "paleta" ; (b) feeding bottles to empty conveyor; (c) inspecting softdrinks from the filler to the conveyor, (d) taking out reject softdrinks in the final inspection line; (e) taking out all dirt, broken bottles, rusted bottles, half-filled bottles and bottles filled to the brim in the final inspection line; (f) inspecting broken boxes in the roller conveyor and changing them with useful ones, (g) operating the "encaser case packer and top washer" ; and (h) sweeping the dirt and broken bottles and disposing them in a big drum. (Original Records, pp. 31-32; Complainant’s Reply to Respondents Position Paper, pp. 1-2). Cosmos, on the other hand, contends that Castro’s work with the Maintenance Department involved only installation and dismantling of annex plant machines (Id., at 95; Respondent’s Motion for Reconsideration of the NLRC’s decision dated June 10, 1992).

2. Id., al 24.

3. Ibid.

4. Actually, as early as April 26, 1990, the new management of Cosmos decided to retrench a number of its employees and filed the required notice with the Department of Labor and Employment on April 27, 1990 stating that they are implementing the plan on May 27, 1990 (Records, p. 37), and attached thereto a list of some thirty (30) employees in the Motorpool (Records, p. 38), thirty-three (33) from the Advertising (Records, p. 39), thirteen (13) from the Refrigeration (Records, p. 40), twenty-five (25) from the Production (Records, p. 41), eight (8) from the Shipping (Records, p. 42), sixteen (16) from the Sabs (Records, p. 43) & five (5) from the Personnel (Records, p. 44)

Because of such retrenchment plan, the certified bargaining agent of the rank and file employees in the company the NAGKAKAISANG LAKAS NG MANGGAGAWA SA COSMOS (NAFLU), filed a notice of strike before the NATIONAL CONCILIATION & MEDIATION BOARD. During the conciliation conferences, Cosmos and the union arrived at an agreement (Records, pp. 25-26) whereby Cosmos will undertake (1) to phase out three departments and some positions in line with the streamlining of the organizational structure of the company for reason of efficiency and business exigencies, (2) to separate employees who voluntarily resigned numbering to about two hundred twenty eight (228), (3) to pay compensation package to those who were not included in the list but voluntarily resign in the amount equivalent to 45 days pay per year of service plus one month’s pay by way of finance a computed at 26 days, and (4) to recognize the cooperative to be organized by the retrenched employees in a bid to contract job that may be needed by the company (Records, pp. 25 to 26/ Memorandum of Agreement dated June 8, 1990). Being a project employee, Castro’s employment was terminated on May 21, 1990 due to the completion of the special project.

5. Even as records show that he was only employed for 11 months and 1 week which is clearly 3 weeks short of the one-year period required by the second paragraph of Article 280 of the Labor Code.

6. Rollo, p. 73.

7. Id., at 77-78.

8. ALU-TUCP v. National Labor Relations Commission, 234 SCRA 678 [1994].

9. Id., at 685-686.

10. Rollo, p. 25.

11. G.R. No. 108142, December 26, 1995.

12. Please see pp 1-2.

13. Rada v. National Labor Relations Commission, 205 SCRA 69 [1992].

14. Mercado, Sr. V. National Labor Relations Commission, 201 SCRA 332 [1991].

15. Even as records show that he was only employed for 11 months and 1 week which is clearly 3 weeks short of the one-year period required by the second paragraph of Article 280 of the Labor Code.

16. See Note 11, supra, p. 343




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