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2009-04-24 |
AUSTRIA-MARTINEZ, J. |
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| The petition hinges on the question of whether Reyes (respondent) committed willful breach of trust when he accepted the Astro Airline ticket of Queroz and granted him a MATO without prior authorization from his superiors in petitioner Gulf Air. This is undoubtedly a question of fact the determination of which entails an evaluation of the evidence on record of the scope of the authority of respondent as Airport Manager and the nature of the privileges he granted to Queroz. As a general rule, purely factual questions are not passed upon in petitions for review under Rule 45, for this Court does not try facts but merely relies on the expert findings of labor tribunals whose statutory function is to determine the facts. In the present case, however, in view of the conflicting factual findings of the LA on the one hand and the NLRC and the CA on the other, the Court is constrained to resolve the factual question at hand.[30] | |||||