Record of death or disability.
ART. 203. Record of death or disability. — (a) All
employers shall keep a logbook to record chronologically the sickness,
injury or death of their employees, setting forth therein his name, date
and place of the contingency, nature of the contingency and absences.
Entries in the logbook shall be made within five days from notice or
knowledge of the occurrence of the contingency. Within five days after
entry in the logbook, the employer shall report to the System only those
contingencies it deems to be work-connected.
All entries in the employer's logbook shall be made by the
employer or any of his authorized official after verification of the
contingencies or the employee's absences for a period of a day or more.
Upon request by the System, the employer shall furnish the necessary
certificate regarding information about any contingency appearing in the
logbook, citing the entry number, page number and date. Such logbook
shall be made available for inspection to the duly authorized
representative of the System.
Should any employer fail to record in the logbook an actual
sickness, injury or death of any of his employees within the period
prescribed herein, give false information or withhold material
information already in his possession, he shall be held liable for fifty
percent of the lump sum equivalent of the income benefit to which the
employee may be found to be entitled, the payment of which shall accrue
to the State Insurance Fund.
In case of payment of benefits for any claim which is later
determined to be fraudulent and the employer is found to be a party to
the fraud, such employer shall reimburse the System the full amount of
the compensation paid.
ART. 204, Notice of sickness, injury or death. —
Notice of sickness, injury or death shall be given to the employer by
the employee or by his dependents or anybody on Ms behalf within five
days from the occurence of the contingency. So notice to the employer
stall be required if the contingency is known to the employer or his
agents or representatives.
Penal Provisions.
ART. 205. Penal Provisions. — (a) The penal
provisions of Republic Act numbered eleven hundred sixty-one, as
amended, and Commonwealth Act numbered one hundred eighty-six, as
amended, with regard to the funds as are thereunder being paid to,
collected or disbursed by the System, shall be applicable to the
collection, administration and disbursement of the funds under this
Title.
Any person, who for the purpose of securing entitlement to any
benefit or payment under this Title or the issuance of any certificate
or document for any purpose connected with this Title, whether for him
or for some other person, commits fraud, collision, falsification,
misrepresentation of facts or any other kind of anomally shall be
punished with a fine of not less than five hundred pesos nor more than
five thousand pesos and an imprisonment for not less, than six months
nor more than one year, at the discretion of the court.
If the act penalized by this Article is committed by any person
who has been or is employed by the Commission or System, or a
recidivist, the imprisonment shall not be less than one year: if
committed by a lawyer, physician or other professional he shall in
addition to the penalty prescribed herein be disqualified from the
practice of his profession; and if committed by an official, employee or
personnel of the Commission, System or any government agency, he shall
In addition to the penalty prescribed herein The dismissed with
prejudice to reemployment in the government service.
Applicability.
ART. 206. Applicability. — This Title shall apply only
to injury, sickness, disability or death occuring on or after January
1, 1975.
SEC. 2. Title III of Book IV on Medicare of the same Code is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"ART. 207. Medical care. — The Philippine Medical
Care Plan shall be implemented as provided under Republic Act Numbered
sixty-one hundred eleven, as amended".
SEC. 3. Article 331 of Chapter II of Book VII on Prescription
of Offense and Claims of the same Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"ART. 331. Money claims. — All money claims arising
from employer-employee relations accruing during the effectivity of this
Code shall be filed within three (3) years from the time the cause of
action accrued; otherwise they shall be forever barred.
"All money claims accruing prior to the effectivity of this Code
shall be filed with the appropriate entities established under this Code
within one year from the date of such effectivity, and shall be
processed or determined in accordance with the implementing rules and
regulations of the Code; otherwise they shall be forever barred.
"Workmen's compensation claims accruing prior to the effectivity
of this Code and during the period from November 1, 1974 up to December
31, 1974, shall be filed with the appropriate regional offices of the
Department of Labor not later than March 31, 1975; otherwise they shall
be forever barred. These claims shall be processed and adjudicated in
accordance with the law and rules at the time their causes of action
accrued.
SEC. 4. Article 335 of Chapter III of Book VII on Transitory
and Final Provisions of the same Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"ART. 336. Bureau of Workmen's Compensation and
Workmen's Compensation Commission. — The present Bureau of Workmen's
Compensation, Workmen's Compensation Commission, and Workmen's
Compensation Units in the Department of Labor shall continue to exist up
to December 31 1975. Thereafter, said Offices shall be considered
abolished and all officials and personnel thereof shall be transferred
to and mandatorily absorbed by the Department of Labor, subject to
Presidential Decree No. 6, Letters of Instructions No. 14 and 14-A and
the Civil Service law and rules.
"The salaries of the present officials and personnel of the Bureau
of Workmen's Compensation, Workmen's Compensation Commission, and
Workmen's Compensation Units in the regional offices of the Department
of Labor shall be paid for the appropriations under Presidential Decree
No 503 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975. Beginning- July 1,
1975, their salaries shall be paid from general appropriations."
SEC. 5. Article 339 of Chapter III of Book VII on Transitory
and Final Provisions of the same Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"ART. 339. Disposition of pending cases. — All cases
pending before the Court of Industrial Relations and the National Labor
Relations Commission established under Presidential Decree No. 21 on
the date of effectivity of this Code shall be transferred to and
processed by the corresponding labor relations division or the National
Labor Commission created under this Code having cognizance of the same
in accordance with the procedure laid down herein and its implementing
rules and regulations. Cases on labor relations on appeal with the
Secretary of Labor or the Office of the President of the Philippines as
of the date of effectivity of this Code shall remain under their
respective jurisdiction and shall be decided in accordance with the law,
rules and regulation i n force at the time of appeal.
"All workmen's compensation cases pending before the Workmen's
Compensation Units in the regional offices of the Department of Labor
and those pending before the Workmen's Compensation Commission as of
March 31, 1975, shall be processed and adjudicated in accordance with
the law, rules and procedure existing prior to the effectivity of the
Employees' Compensation and State Insurance Fund."
SEC. 6. The numbers of the Articles of the same Code shall be
amended by renumbering them consecutively beginning with Art. 1.
SEC. 7. This Decree shall take effect on January 1, 1975.
Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of December, in the
year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.
(Sgd.)
FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.)
ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary
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