Employees’ Compensation Commission 42nd Founding Anniversary
“Proteksyon sa Manggagawang Filipino”
The Employees’ Compensation Program is a social insurance program designed to provide benefits and services to workers and/or their beneficiaries in the event of work-related injuries, diseases, or death. Consisting of three components namely the Prevention, Compensation, and Rehabilitation Services, the ECP aims to provide a double layer of protection to the Filipino workersensuring that their workplaces are healthy and safe, affording them and their families with income benefits the moment they suffer from work-related accident and injury, and facilitating their integration to the economic mainstream.
The Employees’ Compensation Commission, a government corporation attached to the Department of Labor and Employment for policy guidance and coordination, was created by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 442, or the Labor Code of the Philippines. It, however, became operational with the issuance of Presidential Decree No. 626 or the Employees’ Compensation and the State Insurance Fund. A quasi-judicial corporate entity, it is primarily mandated to initiate, rationalize, and coordinate the policies of the Employees’ Compensation Program.
2016 IN REVIEW
In 2016, the Employees’ Compensation Commission carried on with its mission of providing adequate and fair benefits to the Filipino workers which started in 2011. Guided by the 3E’s framework for its reform agenda-Enhance, Equalize, and Expand-these reforms were not only centered on policies alone but on service delivery, as well.
The ECC signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) formalizing areas of collaboration on information dissemination and exchange of information on work-related contingencies. The MOA aimed to ensure that all uniformed and non-uniformed personnel of the BFP will be made aware of their benefits and services under the ECP.
ECC signed the same MOA with the Philippine National Police in 2015.
Likewise, the ECC proposed the same agreement with the Department of Education which resulted to a Memorandum Circular released by the DepEd to all public schools in the country institutionalizing the ECP information dissemination campaign.
Through the conduct of 569 lectures in 2016, the ECC was able to reach 29,373 participants from 12,103 companies nationwide.
ECP Advocacy Campaign
In 2016, ECP lectures were organized and conducted nationwide as the ECC sought to have a personal interaction with the workers themselves and gather their inputs, as well. Topics such as prevention of work- related accidents and diseases, compensation that the worker and/or his family will receive if he figures in a work-related accident or got afflicted with a work-related disease, and rehabilitation services for persons with a work-related disability were discussed during the lectures.