it8w-2026-03-04_01_07_50-magbanua-v-uy.pdf
it8w-2026-03-04_01_07_50-magbanua-v-uy.pdf
Rights may be waived through a compromise agreement, notwithstanding a final judgment that has already settled the rights of the contracting parties. To be binding, the compromise must be shown to have been voluntarily, freely and intelligently executed by the parties, who had full knowledge of the judgment. Furthermore, it must not be contrary to law, morals, good customs and public policy.
The Case
The Case
Before us is a Petition for Review under Rule forty-five of the Rules of Court, assailing the May thirty-one, two thousand Decision and the October thirty, two thousand three Resolution of the Court of Appeals in CA-GR SP Number five three five eight one. The challenged Decision disposed as follows:
"WHEREFORE, having found that public respondent NLRC committed grave abuse of discretion, the Court hereby SETS ASIDE the two assailed Resolutions and REINSTATES the order of the Labor Arbiter dated February twenty-seven, nineteen ninety-eight."
The assailed Resolution denied reconsideration.