In June 2021, a 40-year-old administrative officer attended a face-to-face meeting. After a week, she experienced chest tightness and dizziness. “Tatlo kaming nahawaan ng Covid. At ‘yung isa ay namatay,” said the university employee from Camarines Sur. During her 14-day quarantine, she searched in social media for information about Covid19. Her browsing led her to continue reading : ECC awards Covid19 cash assistance to university staff

The Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) joined the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in the observance of Fire Safety Month by conducting a Fire Safety Seminar for its employees on March 21, 2022, at the ECC Building, Makati City via Zoom. This year, the BFP’s theme is “Sa Pag-iwas sa Sunog, Hindi ka Nag-iisa.” FO1 Sherry continue reading : Fire safety seminar for ECC employees

The Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) has recently granted EC disability claim to a former miner from Pangasinan due to his work-related back injury. For almost twenty-three years, the miner held several positions in a mining company in Benguet, Mountain Province. He initially sought for medical consultation due to multiple joint pains. In a computerized tomography continue reading : Former miner receives EC benefits for back injury

The Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) granted a bank employee’s EC disability benefit claim due to her work-related Cervical Dystonia, Cervical Torticollis or chronic stiff neck. The bank employee has been working at the Landbank of the Philippines, Candelaria, Quezon Branch since 1999. In 2005, she experienced progressive pain and stiffness of neck muscles. Consequently, she continue reading : ECC grants bank employee’s appeal due to chronic stiff neck

The Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC), thru its Regional Extension Unit (REU) 1, recently conducted an orientation on the EC Program during the Department of Health (DOH) Regional Health Cluster Meeting on February 22, 2022. At least 100 participants attended the orientation composed mostly of provincial and municipal health officers from different Local Government Units (LGU) continue reading : ECC orients healthcare officers in Region 1

The Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) approved the granting of disability benefits to a depot operator who suffered spine cord injury due to an accident on his way home from their company’s team building activity. On November 4, 2018, the depot operator participated in his company’s team building. After the activity, they went to a nearby continue reading : ECC grants disability benefit to depot operator

The Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC), an attached agency of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE),  recently reversed the Government Service Insurance System’s  decision denying the employee’s claim for EC  disability benefit on the ground that it was filed beyond the three-year  prescriptive period. A 53 year old employee of Technical Education and Skills Development continue reading : ECC clarifies prescriptive period for filing EC claims

The Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) recently announced that workers who acquired work-related Covid19 could claim benefits under the Employees’ Compensation Program regardless of whether they were hospitalized or not. “This is to answer the questions of workers who suffered from Covid due to work but they were not confined in hospitals,” ECC Executive Director Stella continue reading : ECC: Hospitalized or not, workers who acquired work-related Covid19 could claim EC benefits

A 54 year old, resident of Cabuyao Laguna worked as a seafarer from January 1998 until February 2020. Since 2006, he was employed as a chief cook under different contracts by MAERSK Filipinas Crewing, Inc. In 2009, he suffered from Hernia but it was surgically repaired. On June 3, 2018, he sought for medical consultation continue reading : Recurrence of Hernia, compensable under the EC Program