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SECOND DIVISION
[ G.R. No. 220030, March 18, 2019 ]
SAMEER OVERSEAS PLACEMENT AGENCY, INC., PETITIONER, V.
JOSEFA GUTIERREZ, RESPONDENT.
DECISION
J. REYES, JR., J.:
This is a Petition for Review[1] assailing the Decision[2] dated January 22, 2015 and the
Resolution[3] dated August 5, 2015 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 130134.
[4] The assailed Decision had dismissed petitioner Sameer Overseas Placement Agency,
Inc.'s motion to quash the writ of execution issued in an illegal dismissal case that had
long been finally decided in favor of respondent Josefa Gutierrez. The assailed
Resolution denied reconsideration.
Undisputed are the facts.
In 2001, petitioner Sameer Overseas Employment Agency, Inc. (Sameer) deployed
respondent Josefa Gutierrez (Gutierrez), a registered Filipino nurse, to Ireland on a
two-year employment in a nursing home. The contract stipulated her salary in the Irish
Pound. After merely two months, however, she was unceremoniously repatriated,
urging her to file for unlawful termination. In its Decision dated February 10, 2003, the
Labor Arbiter found for Gutierrez and declared Sameer[5] liable to pay the money
judgment[6] as follows:
WHEREFORE, premises considered, judgment is hereby rendered:
1. finding the dismissal of complainant Josefa Docuyanan Gutierrez to be
illegal;
2. ordering respondents Sameer Overseas Placement Agency, Rizalina
Lamzon and Irish Nursing Home Organization Limited to pay
complainant jointly and solidarity, the following:
a. Salary (2 1/2 mos.) 2,083.02 Pounds
b. Unexpired Portion (6 mos.) 6,250.02 Pounds (Payable in
Philippine peso at the rate of exchange prevailing at the time of
payment)
c. Refund of Placement Fee PHP23,000.00
3. declaring individual respondents Rizalina Lamzon to be properly
impleaded; and to be likewise personally liable for this award; and
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