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Book III — Conditions of Employment

Article 158When emergency hospital not required.

PD 442 · Labor Code of the PhilippinesELI5 guide available

ELI5— what this means for you

If there is an accessible hospital or dental clinic nearby and the employer reserves beds and facilities there, they are not required to build an emergency clinic on-site.

Key point

Official text — PD 442

When emergency hospital not required.

The requirement for an emergency hospital or dental clinic shall not be applicable in case there is a hospital or dental clinic which is accessible from the employer’s establishment and he makes arrangement for the reservation therein of the necessary beds and dental facilities for the use of his employees.

Source: lawphil.net (PD 442 as amended)

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