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G.R. No. 155844 - Nationwide Security and Allied Services Inc. v. The CA, et al.

PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

[G.R. NO. 155844 : July 14, 2008]

NATIONWIDE SECURITY and ALLIED SERVICES, INC., Petitioner, v. THE COURT OF APPEALS, NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and JOSEPH DIMPAZ, HIPOLITO LOPEZ, EDWARD ODATO, FELICISIMO PABON and JOHNNY AGBAY, Respondents.

R E S O L U T I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

This petition for certiorari seeks the reversal and setting aside of the Decision1 dated January 31, 2002 and the Resolution2 dated September 12, 2002 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 65465. The appellate court had affirmed the January 30, 20013 and April 20, 2001 Resolutions of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC).

The factual antecedents of this case are as follows.

Labor Arbiter Manuel M. Manansala found petitioner Nationwide Security and Allied Services, Inc., a security agency, not liable for illegal dismissal in NLRC NCR 00-01-00833-96 and 00-02-01129-96 involving eight security guards who were employees of the petitioner. However, the Labor Arbiter directed the petitioner to pay the aforementioned security guards P81,750.00 in separation pay, P8,700.00 in unpaid salaries, P93,795.68 for underpayment and 10% attorney's fees based on the total monetary award.4

Dissatisfied with the decision, petitioner appealed to the NLRC which dismissed its appeal for two reasons - first, for having been filed beyond the reglementary period within which to perfect the appeal and second, for filing an insufficient appeal bond. It disposed as follows:

WHEREFORE, in the light of the foregoing, it is hereby ordered that:

1. the instant appeal be considered DISMISSED; and,

2. the Decision appealed from be deemed FINAL and EXECUTORY.

SO ORDERED.5

Its motion for reconsideration having been denied, petitioner then appealed to the Court of Appeals to have the appeal resolved on the merits rather than on pure technicalities in the interest of due process.

The Court of Appeals dismissed the case, holding that in a special action for certiorari, the burden is on petitioner to prove not merely reversible error, but grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack of or excess of jurisdiction on the part of public respondent NLRC. The dispositive portion of its decision states:

WHEREFORE, in view of the foregoing, the petition is hereby DISMISSED. The questioned Resolutions dated 30 January 2001 and 20 April 2001 of the National Labor Relations Commission are accordingly AFFIRMED.

SO ORDERED.6

The Court of Appeals likewise denied the petitioner's motion for reconsideration.7 Hence, this petition which raises the following issues:

I.

WHETHER OR NOT TECHNICALITIES IN LABOR CASES MUST PREVAIL OVER THE SPIRIT AND INTENTION OF THE LABOR CODE UNDER ARTICLE 221 THEREOF WHICH STATES:

"In any proceeding before the Commission or any of the Labor Arbiters, the rules of evidence prevailing in courts of Law or equity shall not be controlling and it is the spirit and [i]ntention of this Code that the Commission and its members and Labor Arbiters shall use every and all reasonable means to ascertain the facts in each case speedily and objectively and without [regard] to technicalities of law or procedure, all [i]n the interest of due process." Emphasis added.

II.

WHETHER OR NOT THE DOCTRINE IN THE CASE OF STAR ANGEL HANDICRAFT v. NLRC, et al., 236 SCRA 580 AND ROSEWOOD PROCESSING, INC. v. NLRC, G.R. [No.] 116476, May 21, 1998 FINDS APPLICATION IN THE INSTANT CASE [;]

III.

WHETHER OR NOT SEPARATION PAY IS JUSTIFIED AS AWARD IN CASES WHERE THE EMPLOYEE IS TERMINATED DUE TO CONTRACT EXPIRATION AS IN THE INSTANT CASE; AND

IV.

WHETHER OR NOT THE REQUIREMENT ON CERTIFICATION AGAINST FORUM SHOPPING WHICH WAS RAISED BEFORE THE NLRC IS ENFORCEABLE IN THE INSTANT CASE.8

Petitioner contends that the Court of Appeals erred when it dismissed its case based on technicalities while the private respondents contend that the appeal to the NLRC had not been perfected, since the appeal was filed outside the reglementary period, and the bond was insufficient.9

After considering all the circumstances in this case and the submission by the parties, we are in agreement that the petition lacks merit.

At the outset it must be pointed out here that the petition for certiorari filed with the Court by petitioner under Rule 65 of the Rules of Court is inappropriate. The proper remedy is a Petition for Review under Rule 45 purely on questions of law. There being a remedy of appeal via Petition for Review under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court available to the petitioner, the filing of a petition for certiorari under Rule 65 is improper.chanrobles virtual law library

But even if we bend our Rules to allow the present petition for certiorari, still it will not prosper because we do not find any grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack of or excess of jurisdiction on the part of the Court of Appeals when it dismissed the petition of the security agency. We must stress that under Rule 65, the abuse of discretion must be so patent and gross as to amount to an evasion of positive duty or to a virtual refusal to perform a duty enjoined by law, or to act at all in contemplation of law, as where the power is exercised in an arbitrary and despotic manner by reason of passion or personal hostility.10 No such abuse of discretion happened here. The assailed decision by the Court of Appeals was certainly not capricious nor arbitrary, nor was it a whimsical exercise of judgment amounting to a lack of jurisdiction.11

The Labor Code provides as follows:

ART. 223. Appeal. - Decisions, awards, or orders of the Labor Arbiter are final and executory unless appealed to the Commission by any or both parties within ten (10) calendar days from receipt of such decisions, awards, or orders. Such appeal may be entertained only on any of the following grounds:

(a) If there is prima facie evidence of abuse of discretion on the part of the Labor Arbiter;

(b) If the decision, order or award was secured through fraud or coercion, including graft and corruption;

(c) If made purely on questions of law, and

(d) If serious errors in the findings of facts are raised which would cause grave or irreparable damage or injury to the appellant.

In case of a judgment involving a monetary award, an appeal by the employer may be perfected only upon the posting of a cash or surety bond issued by a reputable bonding company duly accredited by the Commission in the amount equivalent to the monetary award in the judgment appealed from.

x x x

The New Rules of Procedure of the NLRC states:

Section 1. Periods of appeal. - Decisions, resolutions or orders of the Labor Arbiter shall be final and executory unless appealed to the Commission by any or both parties within ten (10) calendar days from receipt thereof; and in case of decisions, resolutions or orders of the Regional Director of the Department of Labor and Employment pursuant to Article 129 of the Labor Code, within five (5) calendar days from receipt thereof. If the 10th or 5th day, as the case may be, falls on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday, the last day to perfect the appeal shall be the first working day following such Saturday, Sunday or holiday.

No motion or request for extension of the period within which to perfect an appeal shall be allowed.

In the instant case, both the NLRC and the Court of Appeals found that petitioner received the decision of the Labor Arbiter on July 16, 1999. This factual finding is supported by sufficient evidence,12 and we take it as binding on us. Petitioner then simultaneously filed its "Appeal Memorandum", "Notice of Appeal" and "Motion to Reduce Bond", by registered mail on July 29, 1999, under Registry Receipt No. 003098.13 These were received by the NLRC on July 30, 1999.14 The appeal to the NLRC should have been perfected, as provided by its Rules, within a period of 10 days from receipt by petitioner of the decision on July 16, 1999. Clearly, the filing of the appeal - -three days after July 26, 1999 - -was already beyond the reglementary period and in violation of the NLRC Rules and the pertinent Article on Appeal in the Labor Code.

Failure to perfect an appeal renders the decision final and executory.15 The right to appeal is a statutory right and one who seeks to avail of the right must comply with the statute or the rules. The rules, particularly the requirements for perfecting an appeal within the reglementary period specified in the law, must be strictly followed as they are considered indispensable interdictions against needless delays and for the orderly discharge of judicial business.16 It is only in highly meritorious cases that this Court will opt not to strictly apply the rules and thus prevent a grave injustice from being done.17 The exception does not obtain here. Thus, we are in agreement that the decision of the Labor Arbiter already became final and executory because petitioner failed to file the appeal within 10 calendar days from receipt of the decision.

Clearly, the NLRC committed no grave abuse of discretion in dismissing the appeal before it. It follows that the Court of Appeals, too, did not err, nor gravely abuse its discretion, in sustaining the NLRC Order, by dismissing the petition for certiorari before it. Hence, with the primordial issue resolved, we find no need to tarry on the other issues raised by petitioner.

WHEREFORE, the Decision dated January 31, 2002 and the Resolution dated September 12, 2002 of the Court of Appeals in CA - G.R. SP No. 65465 are AFFIRMED. Costs against petitioner.

SO ORDERED.


Endnotes:


1 Rollo, pp. 133-142. Penned by Associate Justice Bienvenido L. Reyes, with Presiding Justice Ma. Alicia Austria-Martinez (now a member of this Court) and Associate Justice Roberto A. Barrios concurring.

2 Id. at 165-166. Penned by Associate Justice Bienvenido L. Reyes, with Associate Justices Roberto A. Barrios and Renato C. Dacudao concurring.

3 Records, pp. 448-459.

4 Id. at 449-453.

5 Rollo, p. 85.

6 Id. at 141-142.

7 Id. at 166.

8 Id. at 255-256.

9 Id. at 290-292.

10 Intestate Estate of Carmen de Luna v. IAC, G.R. No. 72424, February 13, 1989, 170 SCRA 246, 254. See also Soriano v. Atienza, G.R. No. 68619, March 16, 1989, 171 SCRA 284, 290.

11 The prerogative writ of certiorari was not designed to correct procedural errors or the court's erroneous findings and conclusions (Carandang v. Cabatuando, No. L-25384, October 26, 1973, 53 SCRA 383, 390). If every error committed by the trial court were to be a proper object of review by certiorari, the trial would never come to an end and the appellate courts' dockets would be clogged ad infinitum with the aggrieved parties-litigants filing petition after petition for writs of certiorari against every interlocutory order of the trial court (De Castro v. Delta Motor Sales Corp., No. L-34971, May 31, 1974, 57 SCRA 344, 346-347). The writ of certiorari issues for the correction of errors of jurisdiction only or grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction. The writ of certiorari cannot legally be used for any other purpose. In terms of its function, the writ of certiorari serves to keep an inferior court within the bounds of its jurisdiction or to prevent it from committing such a grave abuse of discretion amounting to excess of jurisdiction or to relieve parties from arbitrary acts of courts - acts which courts have no power or authority in law to perform (Silverio v. Court of Appeals, No. L-39861, March 17, 1986, 141 SCRA 527, 538-539).

12 Records, p. 238 (Registry return card showing the date of receipt as July 16, 1999).

13 Rollo, pp. 80, 104.

14 Id. at 96, 139.

15 Lamzon v. National Labor Relations Commission, G.R. No. 113600, May 28, 1999, 307 SCRA 665, 669.

16 Ginete v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 127596, September 24, 1998, 296 SCRA 38, 46.

17 Sublay v. National Labor Relations Commission, G.R. No. 130104, January 31, 2000, 324 SCRA 188, 194.




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  • G.R. No. 174016 - Severino C. Baltazar etc. v. People of the Philippines and Armando C. Bautista

  • G.R. No. 174042 - City of Naga as rep by Mayor Jesse M. Robredo v. Hon. Elvi John S. Asuncion etc.

  • G.R. No. 174134 - First Planters Pawnshop Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

  • G.R. No. 174466 - ACI Phil. Inc. v. Editha C. Coquia

  • G.R. No. 174659 - People of the Philippines v. Raga Sarapida Mamantak & Likas Sarapida Taurak

  • G.R. No. 174698 - Aurora Tamayo v. People of the Philippines and Heirs of Pedro Sotto

  • G.R. No. 175118 - Solidstate Multi-Purpose Corp. v. Sps. Erlinda Catienza-Vaillaverde & Victor Villaverde

  • G.R. No. 175479 - People of the Phil. v. Bienvenido Payot, Jr. Y Salabao

  • G.R. No. 175510 - Sps. Victor Valdez and Jocelyn Valdez etc. v. Sps. Francisco & Caridad Tabisula

  • G.R. No. 175589 - People of the Philippines v. Cerillo Tambis

  • G.R. No. 176062 - People of the Philippines v. Efren Custodio Y Esteban

  • G.R. No. 176448 - Jose S. Dailisan v. CA and Heirs of the late Federico Pugao etc.

  • G.R. No. 176664 - Bank of the Phil. Islands v. Sps. Reynaldo and Victoria Royeca

  • G.R. No. 176929 - Inocencio Y. Lucasan etc. v. Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp etc.

  • G.R. No. 176995 - Pablo D. Acaylar, Jr. v. Danilo G. Harayo

  • G.R. No. 177120 - Paul R. Irao v. By the Bay Inc.

  • G.R. No. 177144 - People of the Phil. v. Diosdado Codilan Y Palajurin

  • G.R. No. 177526 - Philippine Savings Bank v. Chowking Food Corporation

  • G.R. No. 177576 - Universal Staffing Services, Inc. v. NLRC and Grace M. Morales

  • G.R. No. 177597 & G.R. No. 178628 - People of the Phil. v. Samuel and Loreta Vanzuela

  • G.R. No. 178083 - Flight Attendants & Stewards Association of the Philippines v. PAL, Inc., et al.

  • G.R. No. 178256 - Dept. of Transportation and Communications v. Rolando Cruz

  • G.R. No. 178266 - People of the Phil. v. Samuel and Loreta Vanzuela

  • G.R. No. 178366 - Dominador A. Mocorro, Jr. v. Rodito Ramirez

  • G.R. No. 178830, G.R. No. 179317 & G.R. No. 179613 - Rolex Suplico v. NEDA / Amsterdam Holdings v. DOTC / Galeleo P. Angeles v. DOTC

  • G.R. No. 178836 - Elvira Joson v. People of the Philippines

  • G.R. No. 178907 - Flora N. Flores herein rep. by her Attys-in-f act Jose Navarro & Erlinda Navarro v. Sps. Lucas & Zenaida Quitalig

  • G.R. No. 179036 - People of the Philippines v. Carlito Mateo y Patawid

  • G.R. No. 179245 - Rash C. Roque v. Court of Appeals, Civil Service Commissions, et al.

  • G.R. No. 179478 - People of the Philippines v. Jinggoy Mateo y Rodriguez

  • G.R. No. 180425 - Felix Rait v. The People of the Philippines

  • G.R. No. 180448 - The People of the Philippines v. Budoy Gonzales y Lacdang

  • G.R. No. 180499 - The People of the Phil. v. Conrado Cacayan

  • G.R. No. 180511 - People of the Philippines v. Marilyn Naquita y Cibulo

  • G.R. No. 180832 - Jerome Castro v. People of the Philippines

  • G.R. No. 181086 - People of the Philippines v. Alfredo Natan

  • G.R. No. 182701 - Eusebio Eugenio K. Lopez v. Commission on Election, et al.