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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 179 - FURTHER
AMENDING TITLE II, BOOK FOUR OF THE LABOR CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES
(PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 442, AS AMENDED)
WHEREAS,
Paragraph (e) of Article 177 of Presidential Decree No. 442, as
amended, provides among others that the Employees’ Compensation
Commission may upgrade benefits and add new ones, subject to approval
of the President, provided that the actuarial stability of the State
Insurance Fund shall be guaranteed; and that such increase in benefits
shall not require any increases in contributions except as provided for
in paragraph (b) thereof;
WHEREAS, under Executive Order No. 102, certain provisions of Republic
Act No. 1161, as amended, otherwise known as the “Social Security Law”
were further amended by increasing the sickness and funeral benefits
and at the same time upgrading the monthly salary base contribution of
employees compulsorily covered by the SSS;
WHEREAS, it is imperative that the sickness and funeral benefits
allowable under the Employees’ Compensation Program as well as the
monthly salary base for computation of benefits shall likewise be
increased to maintain the difference in benefits between work-connected
contingencies and those that are not related to employment;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do
hereby order:
Section 1.
“(w)
Sec. 2.
“Art.
191.
(b)
Sec. 3.
“(d)
Sec. 4.
Sec. 5.
Sec. 6.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 1st day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-seven.
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