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All other claims, including claims for moral and exemplary damages, were also dismissed for lack of merit. 

Cebu City Labor Arbiter junks illegal dismissal complaint versus GMA Network

November 07 2016

Labor Arbiter Jermelina Pasignajen-Ay-Ad of the National Labor Relations Commission of Cebu City junked the complaint filed against broadcast company GMA Network by its former employees.

The complainants Nemesio B. Veliganio, Jr., Ronald F. Rellin, Joel Boider Pantino, Urestedes S. Gulleban, Marlon B. Marquez, Vicente Montejo Jr., and Mark Anthony Flores Bautista alleged that they were illegally dismissed from their respective positions in GMA Cebu Station.

This, after the complainants were included last May 2015 in the list of employees to be dismissed as a result of a Network-wide redundancy program that was being implemented in order to streamline regional operations at that time. The complainants were formerly assigned in local programs, “Buena Mano Balita” and “Let’s Fiesta,” which had already been shelved due to the shows’ history of losses and redundant nature.

In her 14-page decision dated September 28, 2016, Labor Arbiter Pasignajen-Ay-Ad ruled that there were valid grounds for the implementation of the redundancy program and therefore, the complainants were legally declared redundant and validly dismissed from employment.

It was found that, considering the fact that the notice and reportorial requirements were met as well as the separation packages that were paid to the complainants, their termination due to redundancy was in accordance with Article 283 (now 298) of the Labor Law, as amended.

The Labor Arbiter proclaimed that the implementation of said redundancy program was “not done in haste and not without proper basis” and that a “reasonable criteria were indeed established in determining what positions would be declared as redundant and who would be affected.”

All other claims, including claims for moral and exemplary damages, were also dismissed for lack of merit. 

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