ILO: Workplace accidents and ailments are more deadly than wars, 6,300 people die every day, 1 every 15 seconds, 2.3 million per year from ailments or accidents related to their work.

ILO: Work hazards kill millions, cost billions

Ms. Wendy M. SaladaAdmin OfficerECC-REU - CAR

Mr. Jerrick Gerard C. GoAdmin OfficerECC-REU – Zamboanga City

Sea Power Shipping Co., ship sinking, Jan. 28 ,2013

Vehicular accident, Safeguard Security, April 18, 2013

San Juan de Dios Hospital, Machine fryer fire explosion , April 24,2013

Medical City, Hit by scaffold , Le Grand Tower/Acquire Asia, April 29,2013

Bagong Silangan, QC, Scaffold incident at EVM Convention Center INC, February 26,2013

SSA meeting with beneficiary, Serendra, explosionJune 28, 2013

Jeepney hold-up victim, October 12, 2012

PGH, Gondola fall, Jan. 27, 2011

THE EDSA BUS BOMBING

CASE

January 25, 2011

Tanay Gen Hospital & wake in Pililia, Rizal, Scaffold incident at SPC Malaya Power PlantFebruary 6, 2013

• WORK CONTINGENCY PREVENTION is not a 100% guarantee against work-connected sickness, injury or death

• That’s why there is the EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION PROGRAM (ECP)

Designed to provide employees and their families with income benefits and medical and other benefits in the event of work-connected sickness, injury or death.

THE EMPLOYEES’ THE EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION PROGRAMCOMPENSATION PROGRAM

Compensable Compensable DiseasesDiseases

• Not all diseases are compensable

• Only diseases caused by work or the working environment are compensable

List of 32 Occupational Diseases with

specific conditions set

Conditions or risk factors

on the job must bepresent for the disease

to be compensable

Compensable Compensable DiseasesDiseases

Compensable DiseasesCompensable Diseases• Other diseases not in the list may still be compensable if employee can establish causal connection with:

the nature of his work orthe working environment

“Increased Risk Theorybut not for pre-existing disease”

Compensability of Injuries

Compensability Compensability of Injuriesof Injuries

For the INJURY and the resulting disability or death to be compensable, the injury must be the result of an accident

arising out of and in the course of employment.

The Compensability The Compensability of Injuriesof Injuries

Seven instances where injury can be compensable:

1. Happened at the workplace

2. Happened while performing official function

3. Outside of workplace but performing an order of his employer

4. When going to or coming from work

5. While ministering to personal comfort

6. While in a company shuttle bus

7. During a company sponsored activity

1. Intoxication

2. Notorious negligence

3. Willful intent to injure oneself or another

Excepting Circumstances

ECP BenefitsECP Benefits

•Loss of Income Benefit

•Medical Benefits

•Career’s Allowance

•Death Benefits

•Rehabilitation Services

Loss of Income Loss of Income BenefitBenefit

•Under the ECP, it is not the illness or injury that is compensated.

•It is the incapacity to work (DISABILITY) as a result of the illness or injury that is being compensated.

Type of Disability

• Temporary Total Disability (TTD)

• Permanent Total Disability (PTD)

• Permanent Partial Disability (PPD)

• Ward services during hospital confinement

• Medical attendance of an accredited doctor

• Surgical expense benefit

• Reimbursement of cost of medicines

Medical Benefits

• Granted to employee who gets permanently and totally and has difficulty taking care of basic personal needs

• P575/month allowance for both private and public sector employees.

Carer’s Allowance

• Monthly Income Benefit pension to beneficiary plus 10% for each dependent child not exceeding five

• Funeral benefit of P20,000 for private and public sector

Death Benefits

REHABILITATION PROGRAMS AND SERVICES

Quick Response Program

Physical Restoration

~ PT/OT

~Rehabilitation appliances

KATULONG AT GABAY SA MANGGAGAWANG MAY KAPANSANAN

KAGABAY PROGRAM

Re-skilling for re-employment

Training for entrepreneurship

Why the KAGABAY Program?

BECAUSE OF THE NEED TO RESTOREDIGNITY AND SELF-ESTEEM AMONGOCCUPATIONALLY DISABLED WORKERS

(ODWs)

WHOSE NUMBERS HAVE INCREASED OVER THE YEARS.

ECC-QUICK RESPONSE PROGRAM(ECC-QRP)

The ECC believes that there is a need for its presence to be felt as soon as the contingency occurs. It is on this premise that the ECC-QRP was created.

The STATE INSURANCE FUND

State Insurance Fund

EC BENEFITSGovernment Employees Private Employees

Government and Private Employers’

Contributions

EC BENEFITS

Sourced from employers’ contributions

10.00/30.00/worker/month for private sector

100.00/worker/month/for public sector

Sourced from employers’ contributions

• No claim for compensation shall be given due course unless said claim is filed with the Systems within THREE (3) years from the time the cause of action occurred

PRESCRIPTIVE PERIOD

The Employees Compensation The Employees Compensation ProgramProgram

In summary

is a program concretizing the State’s concern for the Filipino working man.

It has benefited more than 5 million workers and their families to the tune of over Php 33.6 Billion.

• Enjoyed only by those with Employee Employer relationship

• Coverage/entitlement to benefits begin on the first day of employment

• Benefits are in addition to SSS, GSIS, Pag-ibig and PhilHealth benefits

The Employees’ Compensation Program

“ di bale ng hindi ako mabiyayaan ng Employees’ Compensation Program huwag lang akong magkasakit o ma-aksidente ng dahil sa trabaho.”

The ECP Benefits are welcome but…

WAY FORWARD1. Streamline the documentary requirements for claims

2.Further increase the EC benefits

3.Expand the coverage of the ECP

4.Partner with stakeholders and other DOLE Agencies in the prevention aspect of the ECP

5. Increase ECC presence in the regions

Employees’ Compensation CommissionECC Building, 355 Sen. Gil J. Puyat AvenueMakati City

Front – Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue Back – Jupiter St.

“HIGIT PA SA BENEPISYO ANG BINIBIGAY NA SERBISYO”

SA ECC…

For more information,

Visit our website: http://www.ecc.gov.ph

Email at: ecc_mails@yahoo.com

http://www.facebook.com/ecc.official

Contact Number: 899-4251 local 227, 228

Public Assistance Center (PAC) 899-4251 local 239 & 896-7837

Thank you.Thank you.