Philippine Sugar Institute vs. ASPEM
G.R. No. L-34081. August 19, 1982.
Facts:
The Philippine Sugar Institute appealed from a resolution on its motion for reconsideration which sustained the claim of the Association of Philsugin Employees that a complaint for unfair labor practice should be heard against it for entering into a return-to-work agreement with a rival labor union, also composed of its employees. The appealed order was assailed as having been issued beyond the scope of respondent court's authority in view of its function being purely governmental in character.
Issue:
Whether or not the Association of Philsugin Employees (ASPEM) is still existing.
Held:
The Supreme Court, considering that the Philippine Sugar Institute has been abolished under Presidential Decree No. 388 and absorbed by the then newly created Philippine Sugar Commission, found no useful purpose for passing on the merits of the appeal as it may be assumed thereby that the respondent union had likewise caused to exist.
Where the petitioner Philippine Sugar Institute was abolished and absorbed by the Philippine Sugar Commission by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 388 and the respondent union, the Association of Philsugin Employees may likewise be deemed to have ceased to exist, the appeal is dismissed for being moot and academic as no useful purpose would be served by passing on the merits of the case.
Case dismissed for being moot and academic.
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