[4]
Id., p. 53.
[5]
Rollo, p. 66
[6]
Id., p. 60.
[7]
Id., p. 61.
[8]
Rollo, p. 66.
[9]
Rollo, p. 67.
[10]
E. Razon, Inc. v. Secretary of Labor and Employment, G.R. No. 85867, 13 May 1993. 222 SCRA 1, 8.
[11]
Rollo, p. 69.
[12]
Id., p. 70, citing II Azucena, THE LABOR CODE WITH COMMENTS AND CASES 277 (1993).
[13]
Id., p. 70.
[14]
Tolentino v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 123445, 6 October 1997, 280 SCRA 226, 234.
[15]
Labor Code, Art. 211, par. (a) provides that: It is the policy of the State to promote and emphasize the
primacy of free collective bargaining and negotiations, including voluntary arbitration, mediation and
conciliation, as modes of settling labor or industrial disputes.
[16]
Rollo, p. 70.
[17]
Id., p. 70; see Luzon Development Bank v. Association of Luzon Development Bank Employees, G.R.
No. 120319, 6 October 1995, 249 SCRA 162, 168-69, citingLabor Code, Art. 262-A, in relation to Labor
Code, Art. 217 (b) and (c), as amended by RA 6715, Sec. 9.
[18]
Id., p. 74.
[19]
Id., p. 23.
[20]
Id., p. 74.
[21]
G.R. No. 108001, 15 March 1996, 255 SCRA 133.
[22]
Id., p. 137.
[23]
The aforesaid Appendix B provides for a Table of Offenses and Maximum Penalties, where the offense
of insubordination, which includes any acts of disobedience to lawful orders of a superior officer is
punished with the maximum penalty of dismissal; Rollo, p. 46.
[24]
Rollo, pp. 36-37.
[25]
G.R. No. 101875, 14 July 1995, 246 SCRA 260.
[26]
Id., p. 264, citing Manguiat, MECHANISMS OF VOLUNTARY ARBITRATION IN LABOR DISPUTES,
pp. 2-6 (1978)
[27]
See Note 25, p. 264.
[28]
See Note 20, pp. 143-44.
[29]
Labor Code, Art. 241 (p).
[30]
Rollo, p. 35.