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.

2. 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

3. Ms. Wendy M. Salada
Admin Officer
ECC-REU - CAR
Mr. Jerrick Gerard C. Go
Admin Officer
ECC-REU – Zamboanga City

4. 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,
explosion
June 28, 2013

5. 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 Plant
February 6, 2013

6. • 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)

7. 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

8. CompensableCompensable
DiseasesDiseases

9. • 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 be
present for the disease
to be compensable
CompensableCompensable
DiseasesDiseases

10. 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 or
the working environment
“Increased Risk Theory
but not for pre-existing disease”

11. Compensability of
Injuries

12. CompensabilityCompensability
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.

13. The CompensabilityThe 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

14. 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

15. 1. Intoxication
2. Notorious negligence
3. Willful intent to injure oneself or
another
Excepting
Circumstances

16. ECP BenefitsECP Benefits
•Loss of Income Benefit
•Medical Benefits
•Career’s Allowance
•Death Benefits
•Rehabilitation Services

17. Loss of IncomeLoss 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.

18. Type of Disability
• Temporary Total Disability (TTD)
• Permanent Total Disability (PTD)
• Permanent Partial Disability (PPD)

19. • Ward services during hospital
confinement
• Medical attendance of an accredited
doctor
• Surgical expense benefit
• Reimbursement of cost of medicines
Medical Benefits

20. • 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

21. • 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

23. REHABILITATION PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
 Quick Response Program
 Physical Restoration
~ PT/OT
~Rehabilitation appliances

24. KATULONG AT GABAY SA
MANGGAGAWANG MAY KAPANSANAN
KAGABAY PROGRAM
Re-skilling for re-employment
Training for entrepreneurship

25. Why the
KAGABAY
Program?
BECAUSE OF THE NEED TO RESTORE
DIGNITY AND SELF-ESTEEM AMONG
OCCUPATIONALLY DISABLED WORKERS
(ODWs)
WHOSE NUMBERS HAVE INCREASED
OVER THE YEARS.

26. 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.

27. The STATE INSURANCE FUND
State
Insurance
Fund
EC BENEFITS
Government Employees Private Employees
Government
and Private
Employers’
Contributions
EC BENEFITS
 Sourced from employers’
contributions
 10.00/30.00/work
er/month for
private sector
 100.00/worker/m
onth/for public
sector
 Sourced from employers’
contributions

28. • 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

29. The Employees CompensationThe 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.

30. • 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

31. “ 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…

32. WAY FORWARD
1. 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

33. Employees’ Compensation Commission
ECC Building, 355 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue
Makati City
Front – Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue Back – Jupiter St.

34. “HIGIT PA SA BENEPISYO ANG
BINIBIGAY NA SERBISYO”
SA ECC…

35. 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

36. Thank you.Thank you.