SUPREME COURT
Manila
SECOND DIVISION
G.R. No. 186070, April 11, 2011
CLIENTLOGIC PHILPPINES, INC. (NOW KNOWN AS SITEL), JOSEPH VELASQUEZ, IRENE ROA AND RODNEY SPIRES, PETITIONERS, VS. BENEDICT CASTRO, RESPONDENT.
DECISION
NACHURA, J.:
This is a Petition for Review on Certiorari under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court, assailing the September 1, 2008 Decision[1] and the January 7, 2009 Resolution[2] of the Court of Appeals (CA), affirming with modification the November 29, 2007 resolution[3] of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC), which held that respondent Benedict Castro was not illegally dismissed. The CA, however, awarded respondents money claims, viz.:
WHEREFORE, premises considered, the instant Petition is PARTLY GRANTED. The Resolutions dated 29 November 2007 and 23 January 2008 of the National Labor Relations Commission (Third Division) in NLRC CN. RAB-CAR-02-0091-07 LAC NO. 08-002207-07 are AFFIRMED with MODIFICATION in that the monetary awards of Executive Labor Arbiter Vito C. Bose in his Decision dated 29 June 2007, as computed in Annex Athereof, ONLY for holiday premiums of Php 16,913.35; service incentive leave pay of Php 8,456.65; overtime pay of Php 578,753.10; and rest day pay of Php 26,384.80 which [petitioners] shall jointly and solidarily pay to petitioner, are hereby REINSTATED. No pronouncement as to costs.
SO ORDERED.[4]
The second assailed issuance of the CA denied petitionersmotion for reconsideration.
The facts:
Respondent was employed by petitioner ClientLogic Philippines, Inc. (now known as shall hereafter be referred to as SITEL on February 14, 2005 as a call center agent for its Bell South Account. After six (6) months, he was promoted to the Mentorposition, and thereafter to the Coachposition. A Coachis a team supervisor who is in charge of dealing with customer complaints which could not be resolved by call center agents. In June 2006, he was transferred to the Green Dot Account.
During