A Filipino worker recruited by Facilities Management Corporation, a foreign corporation, to work in Wake Island, sought to recover overtime pay and premiums from the corporation. The Court of Industrial Relations ruled in favor of the worker. The corporation appealed, arguing that as a foreign entity not doing business in the Philippines, the CIR lacked jurisdiction. However, the Supreme Court denied the appeal, finding that as the corporation recruited a Filipino worker, it could be sued in Philippine courts for acts committed against that worker.
A Filipino worker recruited by Facilities Management Corporation, a foreign corporation, to work in Wake Island, sought to recover overtime pay and premiums from the corporation. The Court of Industrial Relations ruled in favor of the worker. The corporation appealed, arguing that as a foreign entity not doing business in the Philippines, the CIR lacked jurisdiction. However, the Supreme Court denied the appeal, finding that as the corporation recruited a Filipino worker, it could be sued in Philippine courts for acts committed against that worker.
A Filipino worker recruited by Facilities Management Corporation, a foreign corporation, to work in Wake Island, sought to recover overtime pay and premiums from the corporation. The Court of Industrial Relations ruled in favor of the worker. The corporation appealed, arguing that as a foreign entity not doing business in the Philippines, the CIR lacked jurisdiction. However, the Supreme Court denied the appeal, finding that as the corporation recruited a Filipino worker, it could be sued in Philippine courts for acts committed against that worker.
Facts: The petitioner Facilities Management Corporation, is a non-resident foreign corporation recruited Filipino workers to work in the Wake Island. Leonardo De La Osa the respondent, who was recruited by the petitioner, sought to recover from the petitioner his overtime compensation, as well as his swing shift and graving shift premiums. The Court of Industrial relations, after findings of Hearing Examiner, rendered judgement in favor of the respondent. Subsequently, the petitioner file a petition for review alleging that the CIR cannot affirm decisions against persons domiciled outside and not doing business in the Philippines. Issue: Whether or not the Philippine Courts can affirm or decide cases outside its territorial jurisdiction. Held: The Supreme Court denied the petition, and held that if a foreign corporation not engaged in business in the Philippines, is not barred from seeking redress from the courts of the Philippines a fotuiri, that same corporation not claim exemption from being sued in the Philippine courts for acts done against a person or persons in the Philippines.
Herminia L. Mendoza, in Her Capacity As Oic of The Register of Deeds of Lucena City, vs. Spouses Armando and Angela Garana and Far East Bank Trust and Co., Inc., G.R. No. 179751, August 5, 2015