SO ORDERED.22[22]
Both parties filed their respective motions for reconsideration. Petitioners
sought exoneration from liability, while respondent averred that the NLRC erred in
excluding certain items or receipts from the reimbursable medical expenses,
deducting US$1,010.00 from the award of sickness wages, not holding petitioners
liable for his entire wages up to the time he would be employed with another
company, and not awarding him compensatory and moral damages and attorney’s
fees.
The NLRC denied respondent's motion for reconsideration in a Resolution
dated June 30, 1999 and, likewise, petitioners' motion for reconsideration in its
Resolution dated August 18, 1999.
On petition for review by petitioners, the CA affirmed the Decision dated
May 25, 1999 and the Resolution dated August 18, 1999 of the NLRC with the
following disposition:
WHEREFORE, the Decision of the National Labor Relations
Commission dated May 25, 1999 is AFFIRMED with MODIFICATION.
Petitioners Varorient Shipping Co., Inc. and Aria Maritime Co., Ltd., are, jointly
and severally, ordered to pay private respondent Gil A. Flores:
22[22] Rollo, pp. 71-72.