4/6/2021 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly workers. If the recruitment/placement agency is a juridical being, the corporate officers and directors and partners as the case may be, shall themselves be jointly and solidarily liable with the corporation or partnership for the aforesaid claims and damages. xxxx Legal interest should be imposed on the monetary awards. When there is a finding of illegal dismissal and an award of backwages and separation pay, the decision also becomes a judgment for money from which another consequence flows-the payment of legal interest in case of delay imposable upon the total unpaid judgment amount, from the time the decision became final.[42] Applying the principles laid down in the case of Nacar v. Gallery Frames, et al.,[43] respondents shall receive legal interest of 6% per annum to be imposed on their total monetary awards computed from finality of judgment until full satisfaction thereof. On a final note, it is a time-honored rule that in controversies between a worker and his employer, doubts reasonably arising from the evidence, or in the interpretation of agreements and writing should be resolved in the worker's favor.[44] The policy of the State is to extend the applicability of the decree to a greater number of employees who can avail of the benefits under the law, which is in consonance to giving maximum aid and protection to labor.[45] Accordingly, the Court upholds the solidary liability of petitioners against respondents' money claims as discussed above. WHEREFORE, the petition is DENIED. The Decision dated January 14, 2014 and the Resolution dated August 14, 2014 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 119224 are AFFIRMED with MODIFICATION in that legal interest of 6% per annum shall be additionally imposed on the total monetary awards to be computed from the finality of this Decision until its full satisfaction. SO ORDERED. Perlas-Bernabe, Senior Associate Justice, (Chairperson), and Delos Santos, JJ., concur. A. Reyes, Jr., J., on official leave. Hernando, J., on official leave. [1] Rollo, pp. 15-39. [2] Id. at 44-64; penned by Associate Justice Noel G. Tijam (a retired member of the Court) with Associate Justices Priscilla J. Baltazar-Padilla and Agnes Reyes-Carpio, concurring. [3] Id. at 66-68. [4] Id. at 72-73. https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/66097 9/12