The Employees’ Compensation Commission, an agency attached to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), recently awarded death benefits to Josefa de Guzman for her husband’s work-connected death. 

                De Guzman’s job was to drive the company vehicle and to repair the tractors in the field from 1948 to 1993.  During the course of his employment, his life was quite threatened when he experienced frequent body weakness and was found to be suffering from hypertension.  He had a series of confinements from 1991 to 1993 at the Jose Yulo Foundation, Canlubang Industrial Hospital in Canlubang, Laguna due to recurring illness which forced him to retire from the service at the age of 59 on November 26, 1993.  Five years after de Guzman’s retirement which was on September 8, 1998, he was admitted at Calamba Doctor’s Hospital in Laguna for difficulty of breathing and was diagnosed to have chronic renal disease secondary to hypertensive nephrosclerosis, a disease of the kidney associated with high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries an impaired kidney functions.

                The Employees’ Compensation Commission, an agency attached to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), recently approved the death-claim benefit due to Jesusa Casinillo for the death of her husband Julito Casinillo.

                Casinilo was a machine operator of Paper Industries Corporation of the Philippines from 1973 to 2000.

                On December 20, 1999, Casinillo was admitted at the Andres Soriano Memorial Hospital in Tabon, Surigao del Sur, for hepatitis B infection and was readmitted for pulmonary tuberculosis on April 10, 2000.  He died from hepatoma with complications in the lungs on May 23, 2000.

                 Casinillo’s wife filed for death claims benefit under the EC Program at the Social Security System (SSS).  The SSS, however, rejected the death-claim benefit on the ground that sickness has no relationship with victim’s job and the cause of death.

                 The wife elevated the case to the ECC for review.  The ECC found that the working conditions or the nature of work of Casinillo that of being exposed to chips and dusts coming from the wood itself contributed to his PTB ailment.

The Employees’ Compensation Commission, an agency attached to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), recently awarded compensation benefits to Federico Lozada, an inspector of Rotoflex Corporation Philippines for hypertensive vascular disease.

                Lozada was hired by Rotoflex Corporation Philippuines in Malabon City in 1985.  His duties were to monitor, pack and inspect plant materials.  In 1986, he was diagnosed to be suffering from hypertension which was confirmed in 2002 after the company conducted an annual examination for all employees’ and Lozada’s medical and physical examinations yielded abnormal results.  He consulted a cardiologist on April 13, 2002 due to chest pains and was found to be suffering from chronic stable angina with hypertensive vascular disease.  This prompted him to file for compensation benefits under the Employees’ Compensation Program (ECP) with the Social Security System (SSS).  The SSS denied the claim on the ground that his hypertension is a pre-existing illness. 

                Lozada sought the intervention of the ECC on appeal.  The ECC acknowledges the fact that an illness to be compensable, there must be a resulting disability or death.  The fact that the hypertension is listed as an occupational disease and showed substantial evidence warrants its compensability.  Lozada was able to show proof that hypertension and heart impairment manifested in the 17 years of his stay with the Rotoflex Corporation Philippines.  The cause of the ailment was precipitated by factors inherent in the workplace like stress.

The Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC), an agency attached to the Department of Labor and Employment, reversed the SSS decision on disappearance while on board a foreign vessel, Captain Ann of Total Marine Management Ltd., a shipping line based in New Zealand.

 The Social Security System (SSS) denied Caro’s death claim because the seaman was off-duty on the night he disappeared.  The case was forwarded to the ECC for review.

The ECC ruled in favor of appellant because case records submitted showed no proof or assertion that the seaman’s disappearance is unknown although the ships records showed that the disappearance occurred within an established 12-hour period and there were no witness. Go top 

An employee who sustains injuries from an accident while performing an official function should be compensated for any loss of income arising from any disabling injury sustained from the accident. Thus, the Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC), an agency attached to the Department of labor and Employment, favorably decided the appeal of Angeles dela Rocca, a diesel engine mechanic of Navotas Shipyard and Fishing Corporation for compensation benefits under PD 626, as amended. 

Records of the case show dela Rocca was rushed to the Tondo Medical Center when he accidentally stepped on a protruding nail. On account of his injury, he was granted EC temporary total disability benefits for 127 days. Less than a month later, he was Hospitalized again due to cellulitis (inflammation of connective tissue, usually the tissues just beneath the skin surface) affecting his right foot. He was diagnosed for diabetes and required leg amputation from below his right knee.  

The appellant was granted SSS permanent partial disability benefits for 46 months but was denied disability benefits under the EG program because the wound had healed in May 2001 and diabetes is not an occupational disease.  

The case was reviewed by the EGG and found meritorious. The EGG cited that the appellant's injury arose out of his employment as a diesel engine mechanic. This had been established when the System granted him EG temporary total disability benefits. Due to the injury he sustained while at work, he could no longer walk normally. Even if only one foot had been injured his mobility had been permanently impaired. 

The ECC further ruled that appellant's disability might not have manifested fully at one precise moment but rather over a period of time. Hence, any award given by the System may still be increased and provided as circumstances warrant. His disability should be construed not on its medical significance but on the loss of earning capacity. Thus, the ECC ordered the grant of EC PPO benefits to dela Rocca according to law. 

Claims for loss of income due to work-connected injuries or sickness are filed at the SSS for the private sector and the GSIS for the public sector. Go top 

An employee who sustains injuries from an accident which resulted to his death while going home from an outing, should be compensated. Thus, the Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC), an agency attached to the Department of Labor and Employment, favorably decided the appeal of Annabelle Lozano, surviving spouse of Manuel Lozano, a former Senior Assistant Manager of Honda Cars Philippines, Inc., for compensation benefits under PO 626, as amended.

 Records of the case disclose that the company sponsored an excursion for its employees at Puerto Azul Golf and Country Club in Ternate, Cavite. Sometime after noontime of the same date, during a heavy downpour caused by two typhoons, Engr. Lozano together with two others were reportedly heading home when the vehicle driven by Engr. Lozano skidded off the road and fell into a riverbank, at the sharp curve of Governor's Drive in Ternate. Engr. Lozano was believed to have died instantly while his two companions survived  with minor injuries. 

The widow's claim for compensation benefits under PO 626, as amended, was denied on the ground that appellant's husband was notoriously negligent in his driving despite the nature of the road and his disregard of traffic rules. 

The case was reviewed by the EGG and found meritorious. The EGG cited that for an injury and the resulting disability or death to be compensable, the injury or death must be the result of an employment accident. The EGG noted the fact that the engineer would not have met the accident had he opted to remain within his office or that of his own home. Under EGG rules, when an employee is injured on his way to or from his place of work or while at a picnic or outing given exclusively for the employees by the employer and which the employees were required to attend, any injury arising therefrom shall be considered as work-connected. 

When the engineer attended the company-sponsored outing, the presumption is that, it was not for his own interest but in compliance with his employer's policy that he attend the activity which would help establish good rapport among company employees. 

The initial basis for denial of the claim was the engineer's reckless driving and disregard of traffic signs and rules. The EGG decided that this issue was not clearly established. In the absence of substantial evidence to show that appellant's husband was indeed reckless, it follows that the engineer had driven with prudence. The affidavits executed by 'the engineer's passengers negate the allegations. Hence, presumption of notorious negligence is not conclusive. 

Work connected sickness or injury resulting disability or death is covered by the employees’ compensation program.  Employees’ compensation claims are filed at the SSS for the private sector and the GSIS in the case of government workers. Go top 

The Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC), an agency attached to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), awarded compensation benefits to the heirs of Felino Austria, a field utility of C-J Yulo and Sons, Inc.  in Canlubang, Laguna who succumbed to acute myocardial infarction.

                 A claim for compensation benefits under P.D. 626, as amended, was initially denied for the reason that the claimant failed to clearly established that her husband died while in the performance of his official duty.

                 The ECC in reversing a previous decision, declared that as field utility, Austria was subjected to physical and mental stress, which could have predisposed him to develop hypertension.  Company records also revealed that Austria has been hypertensive since 1991 with blood pressure reading as high as 230/120 mm of Hg an that the cause of death wad acute myocardial infarction, a complication of hypertension.  Moreover, records shows that while Austria was performing his usual duties, he experienced chest pains and difficulty in breathing and he was rushed to Jose Foundation Hospital in Canlubang where he was declared dead on arrival.

                 The ECC concluded that the accident proves that contrary to the initial findings, the heart attack occurred at the place of work as shown on the medical report of the attending physician.  Hence, the ECC ordered payment of death benefits to the heirs of Felino Austria under the employees’ compensation law. 

                Work-connected contingencies resulting disability or death are covered by the employees’ compensation program.  Employees’ compensation claims are filed at the SSS for the private sector and the GSIS in the case of government workers. Go top 

The Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC), an agency attached to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), recently awarded death benefits to E1enita Lopez for her husband's work-connected death.

 William Lopez was a factory worker and driver of Po1ysea1 Manufacturing Corporation in Quezon City for about five years. His job entailed mixing chemicals and driving the company delivery van. He retired due to failing health.

Eight months after retirement, Lopez complained of abdominal pain and succumbed to cancer of the liver.

               Lopez's widow claimed employees' compensation (EC) death benefits but the claim did not prosper based on the finding that there was no causal relationship between the deadly cancer and the worker's former nature of work.

 On appeal, the case was favorably decided by the ECC. Liver cancer is listed as an occupational disease in the case of workers exposed to vinyl chloride.  

According to a study conducted by the International Labor Organization in a plastic processing plant, the manufacture of compounds from thermoplastic materials such as polymers entails the mixing with additives like plasticizers, antioxidants, stabilizers, fillers, colourants and blowing agents. The inhalation of toxic vapors from polymers can lead to hepatoma.  

The ECC found the case meritorious. Lopez was exposed to such toxic chemicals for some five years and may have made him susceptible to liver cancer. Hence, the ECC ordered payment of death benefits under P.D. 626, as amended. 

Claims for compensation for work-connected sicknesses, injury resulting in disability or death may be filed at SSS for the private sector and the GSIS for the public sector. Go top 

The Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC), an agency attached to the Department of Labor and Employment, recently awarded compensation benefits to Ireneo Sual, a checker of Vinnel-Belvoir Corporation in Makati City, who sustained a toe injury. 

The employees’ compensation (EC) claim was initially denied because of lack of supporting documents, such as proof of entry of the contingency in the company EC logbook and a certificate of payment of EC/SS premium contributions. 

The case was elevated to ECC on appeal.  The ECC pronounced that failure of the employer to officially record all sickness/injury notices and failure to remit EC/SS premium contributions should not prejudice the right of the employee to the benefits under the EC program.  This is based on Art. 196(b) of P.D. 626, as amended, which provides :”(b) Failure or refusal of the employer to pay or remit the contributions herein prescribed shall not prejudice the right of the employee or his dependents to the benefits under this Title.  If the sickness, injury, disability or death  occurs before the System receives any report of the name of his employee, the employer shall be liable to the System for the lump sum equivalent to the benefits to which such employee or his dependents may be entitled. "Art. 205(c) of P.D. 626, as amended also provides, thus, "Should any employer fail to record in the logbook an actual  sickness, injury or death of any of his employees' within the period prescribed herein, give false information or withhold material infoffi1ation already in his possession, he shall be held liable for fifty percent (50%) of the lump sum equivalent of the income benefit to which the employee may be found to be entitled, the payment of which shall accrue to the State Insurance Fund." 

Sual's case was forwarded to Social Security System (SSS) for payment of compensation benefits and the employer was ordered to pay fifty percent (50%) of the lump sum equivalent of the income benefits the claimant is entitled to, without prejudice to the filing of appropriate criminal charges for failure to remit EC/SS premium contributions and failure to record in the company logbook, the injury report on the Sual case.               

Claims for compensation for loss of income based on work-connected sickness, injury, disability or death may be filed at any GSIS branch for the public sector or at any SSS branch office for the private sector. Go top  

The Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC), an agency attached to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), recently awarded rehabilitation services under P .D. 626, as amended, to Carlos B. Burce of Benguet Corporation-Dizon Copper/Gold Operation.

The claimant has been granted the maximum disability benefit for his degenerative osteoarthritis, lumbo-sacral instability and hypertension stage II for a period of thirty eight (38) months, after which he sought an extension of the period of his entitlement to EC disability benefits from the System.

 Burce was a welder of Benguet Corporation-Dizon Copper/Gold Operation for 13 years. Lifting heavy equipment like acetylene or oxygen tanks, mallet, electric grinder 811d reconditioning of heavy power shovel parts was part of his job.

 Prior to his separation in March 1993, he was already suffering from lumbar instability and was advised by his doctor to avail of rehabilitation services.

 When the case was elevated for review, the ECC averred that osteoarthritis or egenerative joint disease indicates failure of the diarthroidal (movable synovial lined) joint. Major Trauma and repetitive joint use, could be risk factors for osteoarthritis (OA). The pattern of joint involvement is influenced by prior vocational and avocational overload.

                However, the ECC agreed that the maximum disability benefit had already been granted to claimant, and recommended instead, that rehabilitation services be accorded to Burce to improve his physical capacity.

 Work-connected sickness, injury, disability or death claims may be filed at any SSS office for the private sector and the GSIS for the public sector. Go top  

The Employees' Compensation Conmmission (ECC), an agency attached to the Deparhnent of Labor and Employment (DOLE), recently awarded death benefits to Annabelle Dasa for her husband' s death due to tuberculosis of the bones.

                Manuel Dasas was employed as maintenance capataz by the City Engineer's Office in Bacolod City.

                Prior to his retirement; Dasas was admitted at the Doctor's Hospital in Bacolod City for appendicitis. He underwent appendectomy in December 1999. In February 2000, Dasas'was hospitalized for T/C intraabdominal abscess. Acid fast bacilli (AFB) staining of psoas abscess was also noted. There were findings of few acid test bacilli which appeared to be tuberculous in nature.

 The subsequent EC claims was denied on the ground that the illness was not an occupational disease and the natllfe of his job did not increase his risk of contracting the ailment.

On appeal, a review of the case was made. The ECC cited that pulmonary tuberculosis is listed as an occupational disease and for the ailment to be compensable, there must be an inherent risk in the workplace such as exposure to harmful elements or substances or factors inherent in the employee’s workplace.

The ECC ruled in favor of Dasas. As construction and maintenance capataz, Dasas was exposed to fatigue, heat, dust and stree which may have lowered his resistance and made him susceptible. The fact that Dasas succumbed to TB of the bones considering the nature of the worker's employment, points to a conclusion that the ailment was work-connected.

 The ECC ordered SSS to pay death benefits to Dasas primary beneficiaries.

                 Claims for compensation for work-connected illness, injury, disability or death may be filed at SSS for the private sector employees and GSIS for the public sector employees. Go top  

                 The Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC), an attached agency of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), recently awarded compensation benefits to Gregorio Laplap under the Employees' Compensation Program (ECP) for his son's work-connected death.

                 Rodolfo Laplap II was a color tinter/mixer of Saturn Autospec, and subsequently of Velocity Motors and Collusion Specialists.  He was found dead by a fellow worker in the morning of June 28, 2001 within the premises of Velocity Motors and Collusion Specialists, Inc.  Police investigations revealed no physical struggle and no external injury was observed.  Autopsy done showed respiratory failure due to hemorrhagic infarct, lungs.  The father of the deceased filed a claim for employees' compensation benefits which was denied and the case record was elevated to the ECC on appeal.

                 The ECC ruled that the work of the younger Laplap as color tinter/mixer and material custodian  exposed him to paints and chemicals  like thinner, automotive tint and chemicals used for polishing and buffing which could have triggered his lung ailment identified as moderate anthracosis which led to pneumoconiosis.  It was revealed that graphite is used in manufacturing paint.

                 According to ECC, pneumoconiosis is a non-neoplastic, non-cancerous lung reaction to inhalation of mineral or coal dust (anthracosis), silica, asbestos and beryllium which were present in Laplap's workplace.

                 Claims for compensation for work-related illness or injury that results in disability or death may be filed at SSS for private sector employees' and the GSIS for public sector employees'. Go top  

          Ang Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC), isang ahensya ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), ay nagbigay ng temporary total disability (TTD) benefits kay Ernestina O. Ignacio, isang senior insurance officer ng Government Service Insurance System (GSIS),  Palawan, sa kanyang hypertensive retinopathy.

Si Ignacio ay nasuri na hypertensive noong 1999. At pagkatapos ng dalawang taon, napatunayan ni Dr. Lumen Palarca na siya ay mayroong hypertensive retinopathy ayon sa resulta ng fundoscopic examination. Dahil sa normal ang kanyang ECG tracings, walang ebidensiya na naisumite na nagpapatunay na ang kanyang kapansanan ay permanente.  

 Sa pag-apela ni Ignacio sa ECC, binigyan siya ng pabor ayon sa resolusyon ng ECC na nagsasaad na ang essential hypertension ay maaaring compensable din kung may mga parte ng katawan, gaya ng pantog, mga mata o utak na naapektuhan. Ang claim ni Ignacio ay sinuportahan ng fundoscopy report. Ayon pa rin sa ECC, ang hypertension ni Ignacio ang naging dahilan ng pinsala sa kanyang mga mata, hypertensive retinopathy.

 Ito ang naging basehan ng ECC upang magawaran siya ng benepisyo para sa pansamantalang kapansanan (Temporary Total Disability) sa ilalim ng Employees’ Compensation Program at maibalik ang kanyang mga nagastos sa pagpapagamot.

 Ang mga sakit at sakuna ng dahil sa trabaho ay saklaw ng Employees’ Compensation Program (ECP). Ang mga aplikasyon para makakuha ng karagdagang benepisyo mula sa EC ay tinatanggap sa SSS para sa pribadong sektor at sa GSIS para sa mga tagagobyerno. Go top  

          Ang Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC), isang ahensya ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), ay nagbigay ng temporary total disability (TTD) benefits kay Ernestina O. Ignacio, isang senior insurance officer ng Government Service Insurance System (GSIS),  Palawan, sa kanyang hypertensive retinopathy.

Si Ignacio ay nasuri na hypertensive noong 1999. At pagkatapos ng dalawang taon, napatunayan ni Dr. Lumen Palarca na siya ay mayroong hypertensive retinopathy ayon sa resulta ng fundoscopic examination. Dahil sa normal ang kanyang ECG tracings, walang ebidensiya na naisumite na nagpapatunay na ang kanyang kapansanan ay permanente.

 Sa pag-apela ni Ignacio sa ECC, binigyan siya ng pabor ayon sa resolusyon ng ECC na nagsasaad na ang essential hypertension ay maaaring compensable din kung may mga parte ng katawan, gaya ng pantog, mga mata o utak na naapektuhan. Ang claim ni Ignacio ay sinuportahan ng fundoscopy report. Ayon pa rin sa ECC, ang hypertension ni Ignacio ang naging dahilan ng pinsala sa kanyang mga mata, hypertensive retinopathy.

 Ito ang naging basehan ng ECC upang magawaran siya ng benepisyo para sa pansamantalang kapansanan (Temporary Total Disability) sa ilalim ng Employees’ Compensation Program at maibalik ang kanyang mga nagastos sa pagpapagamot.

 Ang mga sakit at sakuna ng dahil sa trabaho ay saklaw ng Employees’ Compensation Program (ECP). Ang mga aplikasyon para makakuha ng karagdagang benepisyo mula sa EC ay tinatanggap sa SSS para sa pribadong sektor at sa GSIS para sa mga tagagobyerno. Go top  

Ang Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC), isang ahensya ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), kailan lang ay nagbigay ng kaukulang biyaya para sa balo ni Diogracia Tarrayo,  isang dating guro sa Mababang Paaralan ng Sigo, sa lungsod ng Calbayog, na namatay sa pneumonia.

 Sa pag-apela ng balo sa ECC, ang sakit na pneumonia na naging dahilan ng pagkamatay ng guro ay nakitang nakuha niya sa kanyang trabaho. Ayon sa mga kaukulang dokumento na isinumite sa ECC,  si Tarrayo ay inabutan ng malakas na ulan habang siya ay nagtuturo ng paghahalaman. Pagkatapos noon ay nakaranas na siya ng lagnat, ginaw at paguubo at makalipas Ang limang araw, isinugod siya sa Calbayog District Hospital dahil sa lagnat, ubo, at problema sa paghinga. Ayon sa pagsusuri, ang sakit ng guro ay malubhang bronchopneumonia na mayroong bilateral pleural effusion. Makalipas ng isang lingo, ang guro ay namatay dahil sa pneumonia. 

Inatasan ng ECC na magbayad ang Government Service and Insurance System (GSIS) ng kaukulang benepisyo sa balo ni Tarrayo ayon sa batas.

Ayon pa rin sa ECC, ang pneumonia ay isang sakit na puwedeng nakukuha sa trabaho kung ang mga sumusunod na kondisyon ay nakalahad:
(a) mayroong tama at kumpletong salaysay ng pag-kabasa at panggiginaw sa panahon ng pagtratrabaho at may masamang epekto sa chest wall meron man o walang rib fracture, o kaya’y paglanghap ng noxious gases, fumes at iba pang nakakasamang sangkap o material sa lugar ng kanyang pinagtratrabahuhan;
(b) may diretsong koneksyon sa pagitan ng nakakasamang material o pangyayari sa sakit ng manggagawa; (c) senyales ng pagkakasakit sa loob ng ilang oras at sintomas ng unang panggiginaw at lagnat na mapupuna sa loob ng 24 oras pagkatapos ng pagkalantad; (d) ang pasyente ay dapat may sintomas tulad ng sumusunod: (1) malubhang ginaw at lagnat; (2) sakit ng ulo at pananakit ng katawan; (3) maigsi, tuyo, at masakit na ubo na may bahid na dugo; at (4) pisikal na senyales ng paghina ng baga base sa pagsusuri ng doctor.

 Ang pagdulog ng EC claim para sa benepisyo mula sa EC ay maaaring isumite sa SSS para sa pribadong sektor at sa GSIS para sa mga taga gobyerno. Go top  

The Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC), an attached agency of the Department of Labor and Employment, recently awarded compensation benefits to Edgardo B. Marcial of Romac Services and Trading Co. in Angeles City for his work-related acute myelogenous leukemia.

Initially, the EC claim was denied because leukemia is considered an occupational disease among operating room personnel due to exposure to anesthetics.

 ECC's review of the case revealed that Marcial was a brush and hand painter at Designer's Craft from July 1989 to May 1997, worked as painter at the Magnolia Processing Plant in Angeles City from July 1997 to November of 1998, and employed also as a painter by Romac Services and Trading Co. in Angeles City until February of 2002.

             The ailment in question, according to medical research, belongs to a heterogenous group of diseases characterized by infiltration of blood bone marrow and other tissues by neoplastic cells of the hematopoetic system. Inhalation of benzene used as solvent in the chemical, plastic and rubber industries has been associated with the increased incidence of acute myelogenous leukemia. Prolonged exposure to petroleum products, paint, embalming fluids, ethylene oxide, pesticides herbicides and electromagnetic fields have also been associated with the increased risk of acquiring leukemia.

                 Thus, the ECC found merit in the case citing Marcial’s work as a painter for 17 years. 

                Marcial’s case was forwarded to the Social Security System (SSS) for payment of disability benefits for a period of 38 months.

                 Claims for EC benefits may be filed at any branch office of the SSS for the private sector and the GSIS for the public sector.  Package of benefits come in form of income, medical and rehabilitation services.  Go top  

             Injuries sustained in an accident by an employee while going to, or coming from the workplace may be considered work-connected and compensable under the Employees’ Compensation Program. The Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC), an agency attached to the Department of Labor and Employment, recently awarded compensation benefits to Michael Galicia for injuries sustained on board a public utility vehicle.

 Galicia is a medical officer of Caloocan Health Department. Being a native of San Carlos City in Pangasinan, he goes to San Carlos every Friday and returns to Manila every Monday morning. Records disclosed that he was allowed by the Caloocan City Health Officer to spend his weekends in Pangasinan on the condition that when he reports for work every Monday at 9 a.m., he would work up to 6 p.m. It was on one such Monday morning that he sustained injuries while on board a public transport vehicle which turned turtle while enroute to Caloocan City.

 Galicia filed a claim for compensation benefits under P.D. 626, as amended, but his claim was denied for the reason that the ingress egress rule covers only the daily routine of travel between the worker’s residence and the place of work.

 On appeal, the ECC decided in favor of Galicia on the applicability of the rule to his case. The ECC cited that Galicia’s travel from his residence in San Carlos City was a continuing act and he did not depart from his usual route.

 Galicia was awarded temporary total disability benefits and reimbursement of medical expenses.

 Work-connected sickness and injuries are covered by the Employees’ Compensation Program (ECP) and benefits come in the form of loss of income benefit, and medical including rehabilitation services. EC claims may be filed at the SSS for the private sector and GSIS for the public sector.  Go top  

                                The Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC), an agency attached to the Department of Labor and Employment, awarded temporary total disability benefits to Ernestina O. Ignacio, a senior social insurance officer of the GSIS Palawan branch, for her work-related hypertensive retinopathy.

          Work-connected sickness or injury resulting in loss of income is covered by the employees’ compensation program. Employees’ compensation claims are filed at the SSS for the private sector and the GSIS in the case of government workers. Go top