Pursuant to Section 13, Article VIII of the Constitution, and the Division Chairperson’s attestation, it is hereby certified that the conclusions in the above Decision had been reached in consultation before the case was assigned to the writer of the opinion of the Court’s Division.     REYNATO S. PUNO Chief Justice [1]           Rollo, pp. 8-25.           Id. at 29-39; penned by Associate Justice Portia Aliño-Hormachuelos and concurred in by Associate Justices Amelita G. Tolentino and Arcangelita Romilla-Lontok. [3]           CA rollo, pp.55-58. [4]           Id. at 37-41. [5]           Rollo, p. 41. [6]           CA rollo, pp. 19-20. [7]           Id. at 21-25. [8]           Id. at 27. [9]           Id. at 28. [10]         Id. [11]         Id. at 30-32. [12]         Id. at 41. [13]         Id. at 42-52. [14]         Id. at 58. [15]         Id. at 66-68. [16]         V.V. Aldaba Engineering v. Ministry of Labor and Employment, G.R. No. 76925, September 26, 1994, 237 SCRA 31, 38-39. [17]         Pleyto v. Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG), G.R. No. 169982, November 23, 2007, 538 SCRA 534, 554-555. [18]         Camacho v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 127520, February 9, 2007, 515 SCRA 242, 261. [19]         Cuizon v. Court of Appeals, 329 Phil. 456, 483 (1996). [20]         Pison-Arceo Agricultural and Development Corp. v. National Labor Relations Commission, 344 Phil. 723, 736 (1997). [2]

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