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New EO raises employee benefits

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PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has signed Executive Order (EO) 54, raising the employees’compensati­on benefits and carer’s allowance in both the private and public sectors.

For private sector employees, EO 54 provides a P1,150 across-the-board increase in permanent disability pension, maintains the minimum P2,000 monthly disability and survivorsh­ip pension, and raises the monthly pension of primary beneficiar­ies of the deceased and permanent disability pensioners from 80 to 100 percent.

The President also increased the carer’s allowance granted to permanent disability pensioners in the private and public sectors to P1,000 from P575 monthly.

He also raised the amount of reimbursem­ent for profession­al fees of physicians under the medical benefits for private workers to P400 for general practition­er and P600 for specialist practition­er.

To date, the reimbursem­ent rates of physicians’ profession­al fees are set at P100 (general practition­er) and P150 (specialist practition­er) for initial visit; and P80 and P100 for the succeeding visit to general and specialist practition­ers, respective­ly.

“There is a need to continuall­y improve benefits under the Employees’Compensati­on Program to make them more responsive to the welfare and developmen­t needs of occupation­ally disabled workers,” the President said in his EO inked on May 8. (Ruth Abbey Gita/ SunStar Philippine­s)

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