Book IV — Health, Safety & Social Welfare
Article 200Safety devices.
ELI5— what this means for you
If your injury or death was caused by your employer's failure to comply with safety laws or install required safety devices, the employer must pay an additional 25% penalty on top of the regular ECC benefits.
Key point
Injured because your employer ignored safety rules? They owe a 25% penalty on your ECC benefits.
Official text — PD 442
Safety devices.
In case the employees injury or death was due to the failure of the employer to comply with any law or to install and maintain safety devices or to take other precautions for the prevention of injury, said employer shall pay the State Insurance Fund a penalty of twenty-five percent (25%) of the lump sum equivalent of the income benefit payable by the System to the employee. All employers, specially those who should have been paying a rate of contribution higher than required of them under this Title, are enjoined to undertake and strengthen measures for the occupational health and safety of their employees.
Source: lawphil.net (PD 442 as amended)
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