FACTS: Respondent Company is a domestic corporation engaged in road construction projects of the government. It engaged the services of certain workers to work on various projects on different dates. The workers joined petitioner union as members. Petitioner union filed a motion for certification election with the regional office. Respondent Company opposed stating that the workers were project employees and not qualified to form a part of the rank and file collective bargaining unit. The Med-Arbiter dismissed the PCE. On appeal, the Secretary of Labor reversed the Med_Arbiter’s decision and ordered the immediate holding of a certification election. Later, respondent company terminated the employment of the workers due to the completion of its projects or the expiration of worker’s contracts. The affected workers claimed they were dismissed because of their union activities; and thus staged a strike. The strike was declared illegal and certain striker were dismissed. The NLRC modified the decision by awarding monetary benefits to qualified workers. Complainants herein were found to be validity dismissed.
ISSUE: Whether or not petitioners were validly dismissed.
HELD: Yes. Petitioners neither assail the jurisdiction of public respondent nor attribute any grave abuse of the discretion on the part of the labor tribunal. The petition must fail for lack of substantial requirements under Rule 65. Also, as petitioners are project employees, their employment was coterminous with the completion of the project for which they had been hired. They were informed in advance that said project or undertaking for which they were hired and on a stated or determinable date.
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