4/20/2021 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly READ THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS CAREFULLY: (1) I know that this paper is much more than a receipt. IT IS A RELEASE. I AM GIVING UP EVERY RIGHT I HAVE. (2) I know that in signing this Release I am, among other things, now settling in full for all rights which I now have arising from my ... illness ... .... (4) I am signing this realease [sic] because I am getting the money, have not been promised anything else. THE FOLLOWING [ARE] TO BE FILLED IN BY THE CLAIMANT IN HIS OWN HANDWRITING A. B. C. D. Have you read this paper from beginning to end? YES Do you know what this paper you are signing? [sic] YES What is this paper you are signing? RELEASE OF ALL RIGHTS Do you make the five (5) numbered statements above and do you intend that the parties whom you are releasing shall rely on the statements as truth? YES E. Do you know that signing this Release settles and ends EVERY right or claim you may have, whether it be based on contract, tort or on other grounds? YES Therefore, I am signing my name upon the words THIS IS A RELEASE and alongside the seal, ... to show that I mean everything that is said on this paper.[15] (Emphasis in the original) On August 26, 2010, Labor Arbiter Del Rosario then issued an order of dismissal with prejudice.[16] Subsequently on October 1, 2010, after reflecting on what had transpired, Castillon decided to file a complaint against Magsaysay for claim of disability and other benefits. On May 5, 2011, the Labor Arbiter dismissed the case for lack of merit. Castillon moved for reconsideration but his motion was denied.[17] Castillon appealed before the National Labor Relations Commission but his appeal was likewise dismissed.[18] The National Labor Relations Commission ruled that Labor Arbiter Del Rosario's order of dismissal with prejudice operated as res judicata on the present case, thus: The records reveal that complainant executed a Release of All Rights, Pagpapaubaya Ng Lahat Ng Karapatan, Affidavit of Claimant and Receipt of Payment in favor of respondents. This [wa]s in consideration of the settlement amount of Twenty Thousand (US$20,000.00) Dollars he received from the latter. Alongside with it, both parties executed and filed a Joint Motion to Dismiss before Labor Arbiter Melquiades Sol Del Rosario in NLRCNCR Case No. (M) 08-12091-10. In said motion, they informed the Labor https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/66406 3/35