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Labor Code · Employees Compensation and State · Chapter III – Administration

Article 182

Employees’ Compensation Commission

Formerly Article 176 before the 2015 renumbering — court decisions before 2015 cite it this way.

Amended
By EO 126 (1987), PD 1368 (1978)

(a) To initiate, rationalize, and coordinate the policies of the employees’ compensation program, the Employees’ Compensation Commission is hereby created to be composed of five ex-officio members, namely: the Secretary of Labor and Employment as Chairman, the GSIS General Manager, the SSS Administrator, the Chairman of the Philippine Medical Care Commission, 151 and the Executive Director of the ECC Secretariat, and two appointive members, one of whom shall represent the employees and the other, the employers, to be appointed by the President of the Philippines for a term of six years. The appointive member shall have at least five years’

experience in workmen’s compensation or social security programs. All vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term only.

(b) The Vice Chairman of the Commission shall be alternated each year between the GSIS General Manager and the SSS Administrator. The presence of four members shall constitute a quorum. Each member shall receive a per diem of two hundred pesos for every meeting that is actually attended by him, exclusive of actual, ordinary and necessary travel and representation expenses. In his absence, any member may designate an official of the institution he serves on full-time basis as his representative to act in his behalf.

(c) The general conduct of the operations and management functions of the GSIS or SSS under this Title shall be vested in its respective chief executive officers, who shall be immediately responsible for carrying out the policies of the Commission.

(d) The Commission shall have the status and category of a government corporation, and it is hereby deemed attached to the Department of Labor for policy coordination and guidance.

Editor’s notes from DOLE (3)

As amended by Section 19 (c) of E.O. No. 126 (1987): “(c) Employees’ Compensation Commission which is hereby reorganized to include the Executive Director of the ECC as an ex-oficio member of the Commission.”

As amended by Section 2, P.D. No. 1368 (1978).

As amended by Sec.19 (c), E.O. No. 126, originally added as a new paragraph by Sec. 2 of P.D. No. 1368 (1978).

Text and numbering follow the Department of Labor and Employment's 2022 edition of Presidential Decree No. 442, as amended and renumbered under DOLE Department Advisory No. 01, series of 2015. Former article numbers are shown in brackets. Notes are DOLE's editorial notes. Amendments after that edition are not included. For information and research only, and not legal advice. For certified copies, refer to the Official Gazette or the issuing agency.