Court of appeals junks IBC 13 plea on labor suit

THE Court of Appeals (CA) has junked Intercontinental Broadcasting Corp.’s (IBC) appeal in connection with a labor case filed by employees of the state television network.

In a resolution penned by Associate Justice Ramon Paul Hernando and concurred in by Associate Justices Francisco Acosta and Stephen Cruz, the CA’s Special Fifth Division held that there is nothing more for them to resolve as the main issue on the controversy in IBC’s petition for review on certiorari dated January 11,2010 has been finally settled by the Supreme Court (SC) in its resolutions dated February 12, 2014 and June 9, 2014 affirming the appellate tribunal’s decision dated July 31, 2008.