LURGELI LAGARE TAMBIS, PETITIONER, VS. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, PLACEWELL INTERNATIONAL SERVICES CORPORATION AND/OR AIDA ESCUETA, RESPONDENT.
Decisions / Signed Resolutions SIXTEENTH DIVISION BATO, JR., J.:
BATO, JR., J.:
For our consideration is the instant Motion to Declare Case Moot and Academic[1] filed by the private respondents on September 9, 2014. Private respondents state that the resolution of the instant petition is now moot and academic because the petitioner and the private respondents, assisted by their respective counsel on record, have freely and knowingly entered into an amicable settlement as evidenced by the following: (1) Minutes of the proceedings before the POEA wherein petitioner manifested “that she reached settlement with respondent agency and is withdrawing her complaint against it”;[2] (2) petitioner’s Affidavit of Waiver and Desistance;[3] and (3) Quitclaim and Release[4] executed and signed by herein petitioner stating, among others, that for the sum of One Hundred Thousand Pesos (P100,000.00), she has agreed to release and discharge private respondents Placewell International Services Corporation, Aida H. Escueta H. Escueta, and/or her foreign employer from any and all claims by way of unpaid wages, separation pay, overtime pay, differential pay in connection with or arising from her employment with the private respondents.
[1] Rollo, pp. 147-148.
Finding the instant motion meritorious, the same is hereby GRANTED.
ACCORDINGLY, the above-entitled case is now considered CLOSED and TERMINATED.
Let entry of judgment be issued pursuant to the 2009 IRCA.
SO ORDERED.
Zalameda and Diy, JJ., concur.
[1] Rollo, pp. 147-148.
[2] Rollo, Annex “3” of private respondents’ motion, p. 153.
[3] Rollo, Annex “2” of private respondents’ motion, p. 152.
[4] Rollo, Annex “1” of private respondents’ motion, p. 151.