Section 3.

 Grant of Maternity Leave.— All covered female workers in government and the private sector, including those in the
informal economy, regardless of civil status or the legitimacy of her child, shall be granted one hundred five (105) days maternity
leave with full pay and an option to extend for an additional thirty (30) days without pay: Provided, That in case the worker
qualifies as a solo parent under Republic Act No. 8972, or the "Solo Parents’ Welfare Act", the worker shall be granted an
additional fifteen (15) days maternity leave with full pay.

"For an injury and the resulting disability or death to be compensable, the injury must be the result of an employment accident,
satisfying all the following conditions:

1.The employee must have been injured at the place where his work requires him to be;

2.The employee must have been performing his official functions; and

3. If the injury is sustained elsewhere, the employee must have been executing an order from its superior."

Compensable sickness – refers to any illness listed as an occupational disease by the ECC or any illness caused by employment,
subject to proof that risk of contracting the same is increased by working conditions.

Occupational Disease – is adisease that results from the nature of the employment and by the nature (conditions) to which all
employees of a class are subject and which all employees of a class are subject and which produce the disease as a natural
incident of a particular condition

Characterized by:

1. It occurs in association with particular types of occupation

2. The disability due to injurious exposure grows gradually over time

CONDITIONS FOR COMPENSABILITY OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES

a. The employees work must involve the risk described

b. The disease was contracted as a result of the employees exposure to the described risks
c. The disease was contracted within a period of exposure and under such other factors necessary to contract it
d. There was no notorious negligence on the part of the employee

CONDITIONS FOR COMPENSABILITY OF INJURY

a. That the injury occurred at the place of his work or where his work requires him to be
b. The employee must be performing his/her official duty
c. In cases where the injury occurred elsewhere, he must be executing an order from his employer

Under the Labor Code, the beneficiaries of an employee are entitled to death benefits if the cause of death is a sickness listed as
occupational disease by the Employees’ Compensation  Commission, or any other illness caused by employment, subject to
proof that the risk of  contracting the same is increased by the working conditions. 

The primary and antecedent causes of Virgilio Riño’s death are not listed as occupational  diseases. Hence, petitioner should
have presented substantial evidence, or such relevant  evidence which a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to justify a
conclusion, showing  that the nature of her husband’s employment or working conditions increased the risk of  uremia, chronic
renal failure or chronic glomerulonephritis. This the petitioner failed to do.  (RINO V ECC)
As a rule, claimants may invoke either the Workmen's Compensation Act or the provisions of the Civil Code, subject to the
consequence that the choice of one remedy will exclude the other and that the acceptance of compensation under the remedy
chosen will preclude a claim for additional benefits under the other remedy. MaRCOPPER MINING V ABELEDA

TEMPORARY TOTAL DISABILITY – is a result of injury or sickness the employee is unable to perform any gainful occupation for a
continuous period not exceeding 120 days or where the injury or sickness still requires medical attendance beyond 120 days but
not to exceed 240 days.

PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY as a result of the injury the employee is unable to perform any gainful occupation for a
continuous period exceeding 120 days except when the disability exceeds 240 days

Total disability means disablement of an employee to earn wages from the same line of work or work of similar nature that he
was trained or accustomed to perform.

Suspension of income benefits

-failure to present himself for examination for atleas once a year

-failure to submit a quarterly medical report certified by the attending physician

-complete and full recovery

-upon being gainfully employed

PERMANENT PARTIAL – is a result of injury or sickness the employee suffers a permanent and partial loss of the use of any part
of his body

A temporary total disability only becomes permanent when so declared by the company physician within the periods he is
allowed to do so, or upon the expiration of the maximum 240-day medical treatment period without a declaration of either
fitness to work or the existence of a permanent disability. (Vergara v hammonia)