Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz said that the Employees’ Compensation Program (ECP) has granted P 528.6M in benefit payments covering 137,259 claims filed by public and private sector workers in the first half of 2012. ECP is a program of the Employees’ Compensation Commission  administered by  the Social Security System (SSS) for the private continue reading : ECP grants P528.6M benefits in first half of 2012

The Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) built a bridge to a better life for me, said Joel Maglangit. Maglangit, 47 years old, was one of the beneficiaries of the Employees’ Compensation Commission’s Katulong at Gabay sa Manggagawang may Kapansanan (ECC-KaGabay) Program. He was a former security guard in Makati City.  While on his way to report continue reading : ECC is my bridge to a better life, says worker

Four representatives from the Philippines, including a medical doctor from the Employees Compensation Commission (ECC), participated in the 5th Asian Asbestos Initiative (AAI) Conference in Busan, South Korea on November 6-8, 2012 to develop academic platform on which researchers and administrators from different countries can share relevant core technologies relative to Asbestosis. The conference theme continue reading : The 5th Asian Asbestos Initiative Conference

Aldrin Ojastro, a seaman who met an accident while on board an ocean-going vessel recently received benefits under the ECC KaGabay Program. The program provides a special economic assistance for occupationally-disabled worker (ODWs) who lost employment by reason of work-related sickness or injury. Ojastro worked as a pump-man at Stolt Nielsen Inc. for twelve years continue reading : Success under the ECC KaGabay Program

Eight Asian countries, including the Philippines, signed the declaration for the development of partnership among the member organizations of the Asian Workers’ Compensation Forum on 25 October 2012 in Seoul, South Korea for the development of workers’ compensation and the enhancement of social security in Asian countries. Representatives of workers’ compensation organizations in Asia, including continue reading : ECC signs development partnership with AWCF member organizations

The Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) recently granted temporary total disability (TTD) benefits due to Vocal Cord Nodules to Marie Angeline Rodriguez, a customer service representative at IBM Business Services, Inc., Quezon City Sometime in April 2008, Rodriguez was diagnosed with Chronic Laryngitis, Vocal Cord Nodules.  Her ailment was evaluated not work-connected by the Social Security continue reading : ECC awards benefits to call center agent

Saturnino Bisenio, 61 years old and a former miner in two different mining companies in Baguio City, was granted Employees’ Compensation benefits for his hearing loss in addition to medical reimbursement incurred by him as decided by the Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC). The grant of EC benefits was a modification of the decision of the continue reading : ECC modifies decision of the SSS, Baguio Branch

The Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC), an attached agency of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), together with DOLE-Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), will conduct an Employees’ Compensation Program (ECP) and DOLE Livelihood and Skills Seminar at City light Hotel in Baguio City on 25 October 2012 for at least 100 companies located in Baguio City continue reading : ECC converges with DOLE-CAR to conduct advocacy seminar in Baguio City

The Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) has recently ruled that EC survivorship pension in the public sector may be granted even beyond the five year guaranteed period subject to the qualifications prescribed by law. On July 27, 2012, the ECC issued Board Resolution No. 12-07-16 directing the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) to lift the suspension continue reading : ECC lifts suspension of EC survivorship pension in the public sector