4/29/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly [7] Id. at 211. [8 ]Id. at 54. [9] Id. at 156-157. [10] Art. 218. Powers of the Commission. The Commission shall have the power and authority: To conduct investigation for the determination of a question, matter or controversy within its jurisdiction, proceed to hear and determine the disputes in the absence of any party thereto who has been summoned or served with notice to appear, conduct its proceedings or any part thereof in public or in private, adjourn its hearings to any time and place, refer technical matters or accounts to an expert and to accept his report as evidence after hearing of the parties upon due notice, direct parties to be joined in or excluded from the proceedings, correct, amend, or waive any error, defect or irregularity whether in substance or in form, give all such directions as it may deem necessary or expedient in the determination of the dispute before it, and dismiss any matter or refrain from further hearing or from determining the dispute or part thereof, where it is trivial or where further proceedings by the Commission are not necessary or desirable; [11] Rollo, p. 16. [12] Now Rule VI, Section 4 of the 2011 NLRC Rules of Procedure. [13] SECTION 6. Bond. — In case the decision of a Labor Arbiter, POEA Administrator and Regional Director or his duly authorized hearing officer involves a monetary award, an appeal by the employer shall be perfected only upon the posting of a cash or surety bond issued by a reputable bonding company duly accredited by the Commission or the Supreme Court in an amount equivalent to the monetary award, exclusive of moral and exemplary damages and attorney's fees. The employer as well as counsel shall submit a joint declaration under oath attesting that the surety bond posted is genuine and that it shall be in effect until final disposition of the case. [14] G.R. No. 170416, 22 June 2011, 652 SCRA 492 citing Nicol v. Footjoy Industrial Corporation, G.R. No. 159372, 27 July 2007, 528 SCRA 300. [15] University Plans Incorporated v. Solano, id. at 505-506 citing Nicol v. Footjoy Industrial Corporation, id. at 312. [16] Dacuital v. L.M. Camus Engineering Corporation, G.R. No. 176748, 1 September 2010, 629 SCRA 702, 711-712 citing Pacquing v. Coca-Cola Philippines, Inc., G.R. No. elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/55455 8/9