CERTIFICATION               Pursuant to Section 13, Article VIII of the Constitution, it is hereby certified that the conclusions in the above Decision were reached in consultation before the case was assigned to the writer of the opinion of the Court’s Division.                                                                 ARTEMIO V. PANGANIBAN                                                               Chief Justice [1]  Rollo, pp. 34-46.  Penned by Associate Justice Josefina Guevara-Salonga and concurred in by Associate Justices Ruben T. Reyes and Fernanda Lampas Peralta. [2]  Id. at 111-115.  Penned by Presiding Commissioner Raul T. Aquino and concurred in by Commissioners Victoriano R. Calaycay and Angelita A. Gacutan. [3]  Id. at 51-55, Lacerna’s Position Paper. [4]  Id. at 79. [5]  Id. at 76. [6]  Id. at 77. [7]  Id. at 82-85. [8]  Id. at 45-46. [9]  Sevillana v. I.T. (International) Corp., G.R. No. 99047, April 16, 2001, 356 SCRA 451, 467. [10]  Rollo, p. 80. [11]  Id. at 81. [12]  Id. at 66. [13]  Philippine National Construction Corporation v. National Labor Relations Commission, G.R. No. 101535,  January 22, 1993, 217 SCRA 455, 461. [14]  Sevillana v. I.T. (International) Corp., supra note 9 at 464-465. [15]  San Miguel Corporation v. Del Rosario, G.R. Nos. 168194 & 168603, December 13, 2005, 477 SCRA 604, 619620. [16]  San Miguel Corporation v. Aballa, G.R. No. 149011, June 28, 2005, 461 SCRA 392, 432-433; San Miguel Corporation v. Del Rosario, supra at 619.