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G.R. No. 155125 - YSS Employees Union-Philippine Transport and General Organization v. YSS Laboratories, Inc.

PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

THIRD DIVISION

[G.R. NO. 155125 : December 4, 2009]

YSS EMPLOYEES UNION - PHILIPPINE TRANSPORT AND GENERAL WORKERS ORGANIZATION, Petitioner, v. YSS LABORATORIES, INC., Respondent.

D E C I S I O N

CHICO-NAZARIO, J.:

Before this Court is a Petition for Review on Certiorari filed by petitioner YSS Employees Union (YSSEU) - Philippine Transport and General Workers Organization seeking to reverse and set aside the Decision1 dated 26 November 2001 and the Resolution dated 29 August 2002 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 66095. The said Decision and Resolution nullified the Orders of the Secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) dated 11 May 20012 and 9 June 20013 which enjoined the strike staged by petitioner, and ordered respondent YSS Laboratories Inc. (YSS Laboratories) to accept the workers back to their work, including those who were retrenched from employment due to serious business losses. The inclusion of the employees who were previously terminated from service to the return-to-work order is the hub of this controversy.

YSS Laboratories is a domestic corporation engaged in the pharmaceutical business. YSSEU is a duly registered labor organization and the sole and exclusive bargaining representative of the rank and file employees of YSS Laboratories.

In order to arrest escalating business losses, YSS Laboratories implemented a retrenchment program which affected 11 employees4 purportedly chosen in accordance with the reasonable standards established by the company. Of the 11 employees sought to be retrenched, nine were officers and members of YSSEU.5 Initially, these employees were given the option to avail themselves of the early retirement program of the company.6 When no one opted to retire early, YSS Laboratories exercised its option to terminate the services of its employees as allegedly authorized under Article 2837 of the Labor Code. Thus, copies of the Notices of Termination were filed with DOLE on 19 March 2001 and were served to concerned employees on 20 March 2001.

Claiming that YSS Laboratories was guilty of discrimination and union-busting in carrying out the said retrenchment program, YSSEU decided to hold a strike. After the necessary strike vote was taken under the supervision of the National Conciliation Mediation Board - National Capital Region (NCMB-NCR), YSSEU staged a strike on 20 April 2001.8

In order to forge a compromise, a number of conciliation proceedings were conducted by the NCMB-NCR, but these efforts proved futile since the parties' stance was unbending.

This prompted the Secretary of Labor to finally intervene in order to put an end to a prolonged labor dispute. Underscoring the government's policy of preserving economic gains and employment levels, the Secretary of Labor deemed that the continuation of the labor dispute was inimical to national interest. Thus, in an Order dated 11 May 2001, the Secretary of Labor certified the labor dispute to the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) for compulsory arbitration. Accordingly, all striking workers were thereby directed to return to work within 24 hours from their receipt of the said Order, and YSS Laboratories to accept them under the terms and conditions prevailing before the strike. The Order was worded in this wise:

CONSIDERING THESE PREMISES, this Office hereby certifies the labor dispute at [YSS Laboratories] to the [NLRC] for compulsory arbitration, pursuant to Article 263(g) of the Labor [Code], as amended.

All striking workers are hereby directed to return to work within twenty four (24) hours from receipt of this Order and for the Company to accept them back under the same terms and conditions of employment prior to the strike.

The parties are further directed to cease and desist from committing any act which might further worsen the situation.

Let the entire records of this case be forwarded to the NLRC for its appropriate action.9

YSS Laboratories, however, refused to fully comply with the directive of the Secretary of Labor. In its Urgent Motion for Reconsideration,10 YSS Laboratories argued that nine union officers and members who were previously terminated from service pursuant to a valid retrenchment should be excluded from the operation of the return-to-work order. It also asserted that the union officers11 who participated in the purported illegal strike should likewise not be allowed to be back to their employment for they were deemed to have already lost their employment status.

YSSEU, for its part, moved that YSS Laboratories be cited for contempt for refusing to admit the 18 workers back to work. In addition, YSSEU prayed for the award of backwages in favor of these employees who were not permitted by YSS Laboratories to return to their respective stations despite the Secretary of Labor's directive.12

Acting on the aforesaid motions, the Secretary of Labor, on 9 June 2001, granted the motion of YSSEU and thus issued an Order13 directing YSS Laboratories to immediately accept back to work the nine retrenched employees and the nine union officers who initiated the alleged illegal strike pending determination of the validity of the retrenchment and illegal strike cases. Should actual physical reinstatement be no longer possible, YSS Laboratories was ordered to reinstate the striking workers in the company's payroll. The decretal portion of the Order reads:

WHEREFORE, [YSS Laboratories] is directed to immediately accept back to work the nine (9) retrenched employees and the nine (9) union officers and members against whom an illegal strike case has been filed, by the NLRC, pending determination of the validity of the retrenchment and illegal strike cases. In case the actual and physical reinstatement is not feasible, [YSS Laboratories] is directed to effect payroll reinstatement with the workers' salaries payable every two (2) weeks effective from the [YSS Laboratories'] receipt of this Order.14

Unyielding, YSS Laboratories brought a Petition for Certiorari15 under Rule 65 of the Rules of Court before the Court of Appeals, seeking to annul the certification order and the return-to-work order issued by the Secretary of Labor. While recognizing the wide latitude afforded by law to the Secretary of Labor to issue Assumption of Jurisdiction and Certification Orders, YSS Laboratories claimed that the issuance of the 11 May 2001 and 9 June 2001 Orders was tainted with utter grave abuse of discretion and patent bias in favor of YSSEU. Again, YSS Laboratories asseverated that the nine employees who were previously dismissed from employment should be excluded from the coverage of the return-to-work order since they were lawfully retrenched by the company.

On 26 November 2001, the Court of Appeals rendered a Decision granting the Petition and reversing the assailed Orders dated 11 May 2001 and 9 June 2001, as they were made with grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction. The appellate court found that YSS Laboratories validly carried out its retrenchment program, which effectively severed the concerned employees' employment with the company. For lack of factual and legal basis, the Court of Appeals struck down the strike staged by YSSEU for being illegal. The appellate court thus disposed:

WHEREFORE, premises considered, the Petition is GRANTED; and the two (2) assailed Orders of public respondent Secretary of Labor in NCMB-NCR-NS-03-086-01/0S-AJ-0006-2001 are hereby SET ASIDE for being NULL and VOID.16

Similarly ill-fated was YSSEU's motion for reconsideration which was denied through the Court of Appeals' Resolution issued on 29 August 2002.17

YSSEU is now before this Court assailing the aforementioned decision and resolution of the Court of Appeals on the ground that the appellate court erred in reversing the Orders of the Secretary of Labor.

For our resolution are the following issues:

I.

WHETHER OR NOT THE SECRETARY OF LABOR GRAVELY ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN CERTIFYING THE LABOR DISPUTE TO THE NLRC FOR COMPULSORY ARBITRATION.

II.

WHETHER OR NOT THE RETRENCHED EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE EXCLUDED FROM THE OPERATION OF THE RETURN TO WORK ORDER.

While this Court prefers to rule on the issue of the validity of the retrenchment program as well as on the questions on the legality or illegality of the strike, and on the individual liabilities of the strikers, if any, we cannot put an end to this protracted labor dispute, however, without preempting the NLRC in the disposition of these issues and thereby transgressing the elementary doctrine of primary jurisdiction.18 The pivotal issue in this petition centers on whether or not the retrenched employees should be excluded from the coverage of the return-to-work-order.

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YSSEU maintains that once a labor dispute is certified to the NLRC for compulsory arbitration, the employer should readily admit all striking employees under the status quo ante. It argues that the primary reason why the strike was conducted in the first place was to protest the implementation of the retrenchment program, which clearly discriminated against union officers and members. It bears to stress that out of the 11 employees affected by retrenchment, four are union officers and five are union members.

YSS Laboratories, on the other hand, insists that those employees who were already separated from service due to a valid retrenchment should not be readmitted back to work anymore. It avers that the retrenched employees were chosen after a thorough evaluation of their work performance, including their frequencies of absence and tardiness, and their respective lengths of service, rendering YSSEU's claims of discrimination and union busting, preposterous.

The petition is impressed with merit.

The Orders dated 11 May 2001 and 9 June 2001 of the Secretary of Labor, certifying the labor dispute involving the herein parties to the NLRC for compulsory arbitration, and enjoining YSSEU to return to work and YSS Laboratories to admit them under the same terms and conditions prevailing before the strike, were issued pursuant to Article 263(g) of the Labor Code. Said provision reads:

Art. 263. Strikes, picketing, and lockouts.

x x x

(g) When, in his opinion, there exists a labor dispute causing or likely to cause a strike or lockout in an industry indispensable to the national interest, the Secretary of Labor and Employment may assume jurisdiction over the dispute and decide it or certify the same to the Commission for compulsory arbitration. Such assumption or certification shall have the effect of automatically enjoining the intended or impending strike or lockout as specified in the assumption or certification order. If one has already taken place at the time of assumption or certification, all striking or locked out employees shall immediately return to work and the employer shall immediately resume operations and readmit all workers under the same terms and conditions prevailing before the strike or lockout. The Secretary of Labor and Employment or the Commission may seek the assistance of law enforcement agencies to ensure compliance with this provision as well as with such orders as he may issue to enforce the same. (Emphasis supplied.)

After martial law was lifted and democracy was restored, the assumption of jurisdiction in Art. 263(g) has now been viewed as an exercise of the police power of the State with the aim of promoting the common good19 :

[I]t must be noted that Articles 263 (g) and 264 of the Labor Code have been enacted pursuant to the police power of the State, which has been defined as the power inherent in a government to enact laws, within constitutional limits, to promote the order, safety, health, morals and general welfare of society. The police power, together with the power of eminent domain and the power of taxation, is an inherent power of government and does not need to be expressly conferred by the Constitution. x x x.20

The grant of these plenary powers to the Secretary of Labor makes it incumbent upon him to bring about soonest, a fair and just solution to the differences between the employer and the employees, so that the damage such labor dispute might cause upon the national interest may be minimized as much as possible, if not totally averted, by avoiding stoppage of work or any lag in the activities of the industry or the possibility of those contingencies that might cause detriment to the national interest.21

In order to effectively achieve such end, the assumption or certification order shall have the effect of automatically enjoining the intended or impending strike or lockout. Moreover, if one has already taken place, all striking workers shall immediately return to work, and the employer shall immediately resume operations and readmit all workers under the same terms and conditions prevailing before the strike or lockout.22

YSS Laboratories' vigorous insistence on the exclusion of the retrenched employees from the coverage of the return-to-work order seriously impairs the authority of the Secretary of Labor to forestall a labor dispute that he deems inimical to the national economy. The Secretary of Labor is afforded plenary and broad powers, and is granted great breadth of discretion to adopt the most reasonable and expeditious way of writing finis to the labor dispute.23

Accordingly, when the Secretary of Labor directed YSS Laboratories to accept all the striking workers back to work, the Secretary did not exceed his jurisdiction, or gravely abuse the same. It is significant at this point to point out that grave abuse of discretion implies a capricious and whimsical exercise of judgment. Thus, an act may be considered as committed in grave abuse of discretion when the same is performed in a capricious or whimsical exercise of judgment, which is equivalent to lack of jurisdiction. The abuse of discretion must be so patent and gross as to amount to an evasion of a 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.24 In the case at bar, there is no showing that the assailed orders were issued in an arbitrary or despotic manner.???�r?bl?�


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