SC nullifies SU retirement plan
NURSE GETS SEPARATION, BACK PAY

The Supreme Court has declared a 37-year-old retirement plan of Silliman University in Dumaguete City as invalid and ordered the institution to pay separation pay and backwages, totaling eight years, to an employee it had retired in 1993.

In an eight-page decision penned by Associate Justice Renato Corona and concurred in by Chief Justice Renato Puno and Associate Justices Angelina Sandoval-Gutierrez, Adolfo Azcuna and Cancio Garcia, the Supreme Court First Division affirmed an earlier decision of the National Labor Relations Commission finding Silliman University guilty of illegal dismissal when it retired Alpha Jaculbe after serving the University for 35 years.

I'm a 'Bisdak,'
Limkaichong clarifies

La Libertad Mayor Josie Limkaichong, who is seeking a congressional seat in the first district of Oriental Negros, laughed off claims of her opponents that she should be disqualified from running for public office because she is a Chinese citizen.

In a petition filed by her lawyers at the Commission on Elections, Limkaichong said she is a natural-born Filipino as both her father and mother were Filipino citizens at the time of her birth. She produced the Order of the then Court of First Instance (now the Regional Trial Court) granting Filipino citizenship on Sept. 21, 1959, to her father, Julio Sy, who took his oath of allegiance as a citizen of the Philipines on Oct. 21, 1959, 19 days before she was born.

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