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Rina, a manufacturing line supervisor at Quantum Plastics, is dismissed for alleged misconduct. She files a complaint with the NLRC Regional Arbitration Branch seeking reinstatement and back wages. The complaint also asserts a separate civil claim for damages arising from a non-employment contract between Quantum Plastics and a logistics company that installed a new automated packaging line and allegedly caused downtime. (a) Identify the controlling doctrine on NLRC jurisdiction in local employment cases and apply it to decide where the employment-related portion of the action should be filed. (b) If the action includes the separate civil claim not arising from the employment relationship, how should jurisdiction and the proceedings be handled?

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If there is a non-employment civil claim, the NLRC should transfer the entire case to the appropriate court and terminate the labor complaint. Only the labor-related relief can be entertained by the NLRC; the civil claim must be dismissed as outside NLRC's scope. The action must be consolidated in a single NLRC proceeding and the NLRC decides both the labor and civil issues. The dominant purpose test: if the action primarily seeks relief under labor relations (reinstatement and back wages), the employment portion should be filed with the NLRC, and the separate civil claim not arising from the employment relationship must be severed and filed in the proper court.

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