Court of Appeals (File photo) MANILA - The Court of Appeals (CA) has dismissed a suit filed by a technology firm which questioned a ruling by the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) on an illegal dismissal case of two engineers hired under fixed-term contracts. In a 20-page decision promulgated May 25, the appellate court dismissed the petition filed by electronic manufacturer Huawei Technologies Phils. Inc. Huawei took the case to the CA to question the Dec. 29, 2020 decision of the NLRC, which reversed the ruling of the labor arbiter and ruled that electronics and communications engineers, Jerome Pichay and Ricardo Aquino Sampang Jr., were regular employees who were illegally dismissed. Pichay was hired in 2014 for a project and eventually rehired for a fixed term ending Jan. 15, 2019. Sampang, on the other hand was first hired in 2010 with subsequent contracts for fixed term employment, the last of which was terminated on July 18, 2018. The NLRC ruled that for almost a decade
MANILA - The Court of Appeals (CA) has denied the motion for reconsideration filed by Ilocos Sur Governor Ryan Luis Singson, who questioned the Civil Service Commission (CSC) for disapproving the appointment of his choice for provincial administrator. In a four-page resolution dated November 14 and written by Associate Justice Maria Elisa Sempio Dy, the CA Sixth Division said it found "no compelling reason to reverse and/or modify" its earlier decision dated Oct. 14, 2020. "The arguments and evidence presented and advanced by the parties have duly been weighed, appreciated and adequately discussed in the decision," the CA said, adding it "finds no cogent reason to recalibrate and re-evaluate the evidence". Singson and his appointee, Cara Michelle Daquep, challenged the CSC on Dec. 12, 2013. The CSC Regional Office No. 1 ruled that Daquep did not have the experience and eligibility requirements to be provincial administrator, a post that requires at least a