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2000-10-24 |
BELLOSILLO, J. |
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| Employment (DOLE) from entertaining cases falling under the same.[13] Thus, the fact that private respondents filed their Position Paper first before filing their Motion to Dismiss was immaterial and did not operate to confer jurisdiction upon the Labor Arbiter, following the well-settled rule that jurisdiction is determined by law and not by consent or agreement of the parties or by estoppel.[14] Finally, the appellate court ruled that a case falling under the jurisdiction of the Labor Arbiter as provided under Art. 217 of the Labor Code may be lodged instead with a Voluntary Arbitrator because the law prefers, or gives primacy, to voluntary | |||||