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Raul C. Cosare v. Broadcom Asia, Inc
Raul C. Cosare v. Broadcom Asia, Inc
As for abandonment, there is no merit to the claim. Abandonment is the deliberate and
unjustified refusal of an employee to resume his employment. To constitute
abandonment of work, two elements must concur: (1) the employee must have failed to
report for work or must have been absent without valid or justifiable reason; and (2)
there must have been a clear intention on the part of the employee to sever the
employer-employee relationship manifested by some overt act.
Here, complainants failure to report to work beginning April 1, 2009 was neither
voluntary nor indicative of an intention to sever his employment with Broadcom. It was
illogical to be requiring him to report for work, and imputing fault when he failed to do
so after he was specifically denied access to all of the companys assets.
As there is constructive dismissal in this case, an illegally or constructively dismissed
employee is entitled to: (1) either reinstatement, if viable, or separation pay, if
reinstatement is no longer viable; and (2) backwages. The award of exemplary damages
was also justified given the NLRCs finding that the respondents acted in bad faith and
in a wanton, oppressive and malevolent manner when they dismissed Cosare. It is also
by reason of such bad faith that Arevalo was correctly declared solidarily liable for the
monetary awards.