Article 182Employees' Compensation Commission

(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 Commission131, and the Executive Director of the ECC Secretariat132, and two appointive members, one of whom Sec. 699 of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended by R.A. No.

1232 (1955): "Allowances in case of injury, death, or sickness incurred in performance of duty. - When a person in the service of the national government of a province, city, municipality or municipal district is so injured in the performance of duty as thereby to receive some actual physical hurt or wound, the proper Head of Department may direct that absence during any period of disability thereby occasioned shall be on full pay, though not more than six months, and in such case he may in his discretion also authorize the payment of the medical attendance, necessary transportation, subsistence and hospital fees of the injured person. Absence in the case contemplated shall be charged first against vacation leave, if any there be. . . .

In case of sickness caused by or connected directly with the performance of some act in the line of duty, the Department head may in his discretion authorize the payment of the necessary hospital fees. Also known as the Social Security Law. Also known as the Armed Forces Death Gratuity and Disability Pension Act of 1951. Also known as the Police Act of 1966.

As amended by Section 17 of P.D. No. 850 (1975). The Philippine Medical Care Commission created under R.A.

No. 6111 (1969) was merged with the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC) and thereafter ceased to exist by virtue of R.A. No. 7875 or the National Health Insurance Act of 1995. As amended by Section 19 (c) of E.O. No. 126 (1987): "(c) Employees' Compensation Commission which is hereby 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.133 (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.134