The National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) handed down its final decision barring legal impediment for the garnishment for United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) to release garnished amount of P7,137,074.42 in favor of dismissed workers of San Pablo Manufacturing Corp. (SPMC).
In its latest decision penned July 17, NLRC ordered the UCPB to release or cause the release of the said amount to the NLRC-RAB IV cashier through Sheriff Numeriano de Guzman for proper distribution to aggrieved workers, plus P72,500.42 payable to the NLRC arbitration branch.
The NLRC arrived at its decision following its orders denying SPMC’s motion to quash updated writ of execution dated May 21, and motion to lift notice of garnishment dated May 29, and further denying respondent’s motion for voluntary inhibition of labor arbiter Melchisedek Guan for lack of just and legal basis.
The commission also denied complainant’s petition to hold SPMC resident manager Alex Quintillano, UCPB Makati branch operations manager Jade Legasto and UCPB legal officer Mignonette Alday for indirect contempt for lack of merit.
One Felicito Bautista who represented the dismissed workers of SPMC said his group has yet to see the light and the fruits of their seven-year labor battle as officers of their company were giving them the run-around and excuses for denying benefits due them, as they exhausted everything on cover of legal remedies.
Bautista said his group was hoping for UCPB’s full compliance to NLRC’s final decision favoring the 31 aggrieved workers, four of which were reinstated earlier while another died fighting for their cause.
Three men staged a robbery holdup of a Western Union Branch in San Pedro, Laguna yesterday, police said.
Police Supt. Kirby John Kraft, chief of the San Pedro Laguna Municipal Police Station, said  the incident happened at around 11:04 in the morning of Saturday.
Kraft said one of the three robbery holdup suspects was identified as Edwin Franco Deloso who, together with two more unidentified suspects, held up the Western Union offics in Barangay Calendola and took the cash amounting to more or less P82,000, three cellphones belonging to the employees  and the service firearm of the security guard, Antonio Lagbas. The suspects fled on foot after the incident.
At the San Pedro MPS, when a rouge’s gallery of known holduppers in San Pedro was shown to the three employees, they positively identified Franco.
A follow-up investigation and manhunt are ongoing, while the case is set for filing in court.