CTI GROUP PHILIPPINES, INC., SEACHEST ASSOCIATES/CARNIVAL CORP. AND/OR MARIA FE YUDE, PETITIONERS, VS. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION (FOURTH DIVISION) AND/OR ROBERTO J. DE…
BALTAZAR-PADILLA, J.:
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- Money garnished from Petitioner CTI Group Philippines Inc.’s Escrow Deposit Account and released and issued by RCBC Trust as RCBC Trust Check No. 0000156035 in the amount of NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED NINETY SIX PESOS & 64/100 (Php985,496.64), or its dollar equivalent of USD 22,655.10 and deposited with NLRC deposity bank UCPB; and which was released by the NLRC to complainant in the amount of PHP942,911.64 and the balance of PHP42,585.00 paid by petitioners with BDO Check No. 0286336 dated November 20, 2014 and USD 32,344.90 or its peso equivalent of Php1,445,817.03 covered by BDO Manager’s Check No. 0009748 dated 20 November 2014.
The private respondent hereby accept the amount already received and the additional amount given by petitioners with a total of USD55,000.00 as full and final settlement of the case.
The parties now ask for the complete dismissal of this case, CA-G.R. SP NO. 135089, and that the obligation in accordance with the decision of the National Labor Relations Commission dated December 20, 2013 and February 25, 2014 in NLRC NCR Case No. (M) 03-04360-13/NLRC LAC No. 0FW-M-10-001007-13 be considered fully satisfied also by virtue of this Compromise Agreement and the said NLRC case likewise deemed closed and terminated and the Writ of Execution issued by the Labor Arbiter by virtue of the said Resolutions be deemed moot and academic.
This Compromise Agreement will also cancel the Petition for Certiorari dated 22 April 2014 filed on April 29, 2014.
The parties have agreed to fully terminate the case now pending before the Court of Appeals and that both parties further agree that no further action based on the same grounds be brought against each other; and this Compromise Agreement applies to all claims and damages or losses either party may have against each other whether those damages or losses are known, or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen.
Attached hereto is the RELEASE, QUITCLAIM AND WAIVER OF ALL RIGHTS signed by private respondent.
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Attached to the said Compromise Agreement are Release, Quitclaim and Waiver of All Rights executed by private respondent in favor of petitioners and a receipt of payment signed by private respondent acknowledging receipt of BDO Manager’s Check No. 0009748 dated 20 November 204 in the sum of ONE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED FORTY FIVE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTEEN PESOS & 03/100 (Php1,445,817.03), payable to Roberto Delloro and BDO Check No. 0286336 dated November 20, 2014 in the sum of FORTY TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE PESOS (Php42,585.00) payable in Cash in full and complete settlement of all claims, demands and actions for sickness compensation, disability compensation and damages and all future medical and hospital expenses due to the result of the illness suffered by Asst. Stateroom Steward of the vessel “CARNIVAL ELATION.”
WHEREFORE, the foregoing considered, the instant petition is hereby DISMISSED and the case is now considered CLOSED and TERMINATED.
SO ORDERED.
Abdulwahid, H. S., Chairperson and Inting, S. B., JJ., concur.
[1] Rollo, pp. 294-295.