6/5/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly for several hours before attending a meeting. In that meeting, the Vice President for Administration Dr. Belaineh and two staff members from the department conversed in Amharic, which she did not understand. She was also assigned to work under the acting head, who was merely a holder of a diploma in accounting. Respondent manifested that "[she does] not deserve to be insulted."[37] Respondent was repatriated on 27 June 2006.[38] She later signed a Quitclaim and Release dated 5 July 2006 in favor of petitioner. The waiver reads as follows: That for and in consideration of the sum of NINE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($900 USD), and for other invaluable considerations extended to me by GBMLT MANPOWER SERVICES, INC., receipt of which is hereby acknowledged to my full and complete satisfaction, I hereby forever release and discharge said GBMLT MANPOWER SERVICES, INC., all its Officers and Directors, from any and all claims by way of unpaid salaries, wages, and all other monetary claims or otherwise due me in connection with my deployment as lecturer/teacher in Ethiopia. I hereby state further x x x that this Quitclaim and Release is executed on my own free will and that I have no more claims [or] right of action [of] whatever nature and kind, whether past, present and/or contingent against GBMLT MANPOWER SERVICES, INC.[,] its Officers and Directors as a consequence of such deployment.[39] On 18 July 2006, respondent filed a complaint before the labor arbiter against petitioner as local agency and Alemaya University as foreign principal.[40] She sought full payment of the unexpired portion of the two-year contract, moral and exemplary damages, and attorney's fees. Ruling of the Labor Arbiter In a Decision[41] dated 29 March 2007, the labor arbiter found respondent to have been unduly repatriated in breach of the employment contract.[42] Petitioner and Alemaya University were ordered to pay her in solidum the amounts of USD 4,500 as unrealized income - from which the amount paid to her under the Quitclaim and Release had already been deducted - Php 30,000 as moral damages, Php 20,000 as exemplary damages, plus costs.[43] According to the labor arbiter, respondent did not hide the fact that she had no master's degree "in the strict sense of the word,"[44] because she was a holder of a bachelor of laws degree. Some law schools in the Philippines actually confer the degree of Juris Doctor on their graduates because a four-year undergraduate degree is one of the qualifications for acceptance.[45] Thus, it was incumbent upon Alemaya University to allow respondent to finish her two-year employment contract instead of forcing her to sign a new contract with lower pay, just because she did not have a master's degree. [46] elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/60760 5/20