FIRST DIVISION
[G.R. No. 255228. November 18, 2021.]
MA. ELISA A. MACAPAGAL, petitioner,vs. SOLAR GARD PHILS. CORP. AND GROUP OF COMPANIES and CHRISTINE COSING YU, respondents.
NOTICE
Sirs/Mesdames :
Please take notice that the Court, First Division, issued a Resolution dated November 18, 2021which reads as follows:
"G.R. No. 255228 — MA. ELISA A. MACAPAGAL, petitioner, versus SOLAR GARD PHILS. CORP. AND GROUP OF COMPANIES and CHRISTINE COSING YU, respondents.
RESOLUTION
The Petition is unmeritorious.
The Court is not a trier of facts. Thus, in a petition for review on certiorari under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court, only questions of law may be put in issue and questions of facts will not be entertained. 1 Furthermore, if the factual findings of the Labor Arbiter (LA) and the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) have been affirmed by the Court of Appeals (CA), the Court accords them respect and finality. 2 After all, well settled is the rule that the findings of fact of administrative agencies and quasi-judicial bodies, which have acquired expertise because their jurisdiction is confined to specific matters, are generally accorded not only respect, but finality when affirmed by the CA. 3
While there are instances where the Court admits of exceptions 4 to this rule, the Court finds no cogent reason to deviate from the uniform findings of the LA, the NLRC, and the CA. The arguments raised by petitioner in her Petition are mere rehash of those raised before and passed upon by the labor tribunals and the appellate court.
Conformably with prevailing jurisprudence, 5 however, legal interest at the rate of 6% per annum should be imposed on the total monetary award of the LA, if still unpaid, reckoned from the finality of this Resolution until full payment.
WHEREFORE, in view of the foregoing, the Petition for Review on Certiorari dated March 3, 2021 is DENIED. The Decision dated June 30, 2020 and Resolution dated December 22, 2020 of the Court of Appeals, in CA-G.R. SP No. 161264 are AFFIRMED, subject to MODIFICATION that the total monetary award of the Labor Arbiter, if still unpaid, shall earn legal interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum reckoned from the finality of this Resolution until full payment.
SO ORDERED." LOPEZ, M., J., on official leave.
By authority of the Court:
(SGD.) LIBRADA C. BUENADivision Clerk of Court
By:
MARIA TERESA B. SIBULODeputy Division Clerk of Court
Footnotes
1.Century Iron Works, Inc. v. Banas, 711 Phil. 576, 584 (2013).
2.Sarona v. NLRC, 679 Phil. 394, 414 (2012).
3.Id.
4. INTERNAL RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE SUPREME COURT, Rule 3, Section 4.
5.Nacar v. Gallery Frames, G.R. No. 189871, August 13, 2013, 716 Phil. 267 (2013).