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2009-09-14 |
YNARES-SANTIAGO, J. |
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| Finally, we come to the appellate court's award of additional signing bonus, which we find to be unwarranted under the circumstances. A signing bonus is a grant motivated by the goodwill generated when a CBA is successfully negotiated and signed between the employer and the union.[22] In the instant case, no CBA was successfully negotiated by the parties. It is only because petitioner prays for this Court to affirm in toto the DOLE Secretary's May 31, 2002 Order that we shall allow an award of signing bonus. There would have been no other basis to grant it if petitioner had not so prayed. We shall take it as a manifestation of petitioner's liberality, which we cannot now allow it to withdraw. A bonus is a gratuity or act of liberality of the giver;[23] when petitioner filed the instant petition seeking the affirmance of the DOLE Secretary's Order in its entirety, assailing only the increased amount of the signing bonus awarded, it is considered to have unqualifiedly agreed to grant the original award to the respondent union's members. | |||||