Pursuant to Section 13, Article VIII of the Constitution, and the Acting Division Chairpersons Attestation, I certify 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 Courts Division.       LEONARDO A. QUISUMBING Acting Chief Justice   *  On Official Leave.  Acting Chairperson of the First Division as per Special Order No. 534. ***  Additional Member as per Special Order No. 535. [1]  Penned by Associate Justice Arturo G. Tayag, with Associate Justices Martin S. Villarama Jr. and Arcangelita Romilla-Lontok, concurring, rollo, pp.11-23. [2]  Id., at pp. 111-121. [3]  Id., at pp. 123-125. [4]  E.O. No. 247, Sec. 3(i) and (j). [5]  Art. 1700, New Civil Code.  The relations between capital and labor are not merely contractual.  They are so impressed with public interest that labor contracts must yield to the common good. Therefore, such contracts are subject to the special laws on labor unions, collective bargaining, strikes and lockouts, closed shop, wages, working conditions, hours of labor and similar subjects.   [6]  Seagull Shipmanagement and Transport, Inc. v. NLRC, G.R. No. 123619, June 8, 2000, 333 SCRA 236. [7]  Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co. v. Wong, G.R. No. 120859, June 26, 2001, 359 SCRA 608. [8]  403 Phil. 572, 588 (2001). [9]  G.R. No. 167813, June 27, 2006, 493 SCRA 502. [10]  ECC v. Sanico, G.R. No. 134028, December 17, 1999, 321 SCRA 268, 270-271; GSIS v. CA, G.R. No. 117572, January 29, 1998, 285 SCRA 430, 436; GSIS v. CA, G.R. No. 116015, July 31, 1996, 260 SCRA 133, 138; Bejerano v. ECC, G.R. No. 84777, January 30, 1992, 205 SCRA 598, 602. [11]  G.R. No. 154093, July 8, 2003, 405 SCRA 450, 454. [12]  G.R. No. 105854, August 26, 1999, 313 SCRA 141, 149-150. [13]  http://www.answers.com/topic/staphylococcal_infection_3, citing Bennett, J. Claude, and Fred Plum, eds. Cecil Textbook of Medicine. Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders Company, 1996. **