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Buenaventura C. Magsalin And Coca-Cola Bottlers Phils


versus
National Organization Of Working Men (N.O.W.N), Et. Al.,
G.R. No. 148492, May 9, 2003

FACTS:

Coca-Cola Bottlers Phils. Inc., petitioner, engaged the services of respondent workers
as sales route helpers for a limited period of 5 years months. After 5 months, respondent
workers were employed by petitioner company on a day-to-day basis. According to
petitioner company, respondent workers were hired to substitute for regular sales route
helpers whenever the latter would be unavailable or when there would be an unexpected
shortage of manpower in any of its work places or an unusually high volume of work.
The practice was for the workers to wait every morning outside the gates of the sales
office of petitioner company. If thus hired, the workers then be paid their wages at the end
of the day. Ultimately, respondent workers asked petitioner company to extend to them
regular appointments. Petitioner company refused. On 07 November 1997, 23 of the
temporary workers (herein respondents) fild with the National Labor Relations
Commission (NLRC) a complaint for the regularization of their employment with
petitioner company. The complaint was amended that ultimately totaled 58 workers.
Claiming that petitioner company meanwhile terminated their services, respondent
workers filed a notice of strike and a complaint for illegal dismissal and unfair labor
practice with the NLRC.

ISSUE:

Whether or not the nature of work of respondent in the company is of such nature as
to be deemed necessary and desirable in the usual business or trade of petitioner that
could qualify them to be regular employees.

SUPREME COURT RULING:

The repeated hiring of the respondent workers and continuing need of their daily
services clearly attest to the necessity or desirability of their services in the regular
conduct of the business/trade of petitioner.

In determining whether employment is regular or not, the applicable test is the


reasonable connection between a particular activity performed in relation to the usual
business or trade of the employer. The nature of work must be viewed from the
perspective of the business in its entirety and not confined scope.

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