Dismissal of Employee

We agree with both the NLRC and the Court of Appeals that Atty. Garcia’s ouster as Vice-President, who is a corporate officer of ETPI, partakes of the nature of an intra-corporate controversy, jurisdiction over which is vested in the SEC (now the RTC). The Labor Arbiter thus erred in assuming jurisdiction over the case filed by Atty. Garcia, because he had no jurisdiction over the subject matter of the controversy. (Garcia v. ETPI, G.R. No. 173115, April 16, 2009)