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CIR
69 Phil 635
FACTS: Teodoro Toribio owns and operates Ang Tibay, a leather company which supplies the
Philippine Army. Due to alleged shortage of leather, Toribio caused the layoff of members of
National Labor Union (NLU). NLU averred that Toribios act is not valid. The CIR, decided the
case and elevated it to the SC, but a motion for new trial was raised by the NLU. But Ang Tibay
filed a motion for opposing the said motion.
ISSUE: Whether the Court of Industrial Relations is an administrative board.
RULING: To begin with the issue before us is to realize the functions of the CIR. The CIR is a
special court whose functions are specifically stated in the law of its creation which is the
Commonwealth Act No. 103). It is more an administrative board than a part of the integrated
judicial system of the nation. It is not intended to be a mere receptive organ of the government.
Unlike a court of justice which is essentially passive, acting only when its jurisdiction is invoked
and deciding only cases that are presented to it by the parties litigant, the function of the CIR, as
will appear from perusal of its organic law is more active, affirmative and dynamic. It not only
exercises judicial or quasi-judicial functions in the determination of disputes between employers
and employees but its functions are far more comprehensive and extensive. It has jurisdiction
over the entire Philippines, to consider, investigate, decide, and settle any question, matter
controversy or disputes arising between, and/ or affecting employers and employees or
laborers, and landlords and tenants or farm-laborers, and regulates the relations between them,
subject to, and in accordance with, the provisions of CA 103.