Mandaue CH workers to get monetary help

CEBU, Philippines - Mandaue City hall regular and job order employees will be entitled to hospitalization and burial assistance, if the resolution seeking such is approved by the city council.

But claims for such assistance shall be made within the prescriptive period laid down by a resolution authored by Councilor Emmarie “Lolypop” Ouano-Dizon.

Ouano-Dizon said the insertion in the resolution of the prescriptive period, upon the advice of city legal officer Giovanni Tianero, was made after Mayor Jonas Cortes signed the resolution last December. 

Upon Tianero’s suggestion, Ouano-Dizon amended Section 5 of the ordinance, which indicates the prescriptive period.

The amended resolution has been endorsed to the committee on laws headed by Councilor Nenita Layese for review. 

“All financial assistance claims for hospitalization and burial shall be claimed within fifteen days from hospitalization or death of the employee concerned, otherwise it will be deemed waived and forfeited. It shall cover only hospitalizations and deaths that occurred or happened after the ordinance became effective,” the amended ordinance states.

The ordinance also states that regular and job order employees of the Mandaue City hall can avail of financial assistance from the city government if they are unable to work or get confined in hospital due to sickness, injury, or accident which occurred during the performance of their duty.

A separate financial aid will also be given to their families if the workers die while in the performance of their duty.

For a city government employee to avail of the financial assistance, he should present proof of hospitalization such as the original copy or certified true copy of a medical certificate signed by an attending physician.

But in the event that the attending physician is a private doctor, a certification from a government doctor must be obtained.

The employee is also required to secure a certification from his department head verifying he is a city government employee, that he had been confined in hospital, and the time and place of accident.

The employee is also required to secure a police report which would indicate the accident he was involved in.

For burial assistance, the beneficiary should submit a certification from the department head verifying that the deceased is employed by the city and is assigned to his office at the time of death, a certified true copy of the death certificate and sufficient identification and proof or relationship of the claimant, and a marriage contract shall be presented by a surviving spouse if the deceased is married. 

Financial assistance will be extended to the employee if he is alive and for claims for burial assistance shall be made by the deceased employee’s beneficiary.

Ouano-Dizon’s ordinance stipulates that an injured employee will get a minimum of P25,000 to P50,000 in financial aid if he lost an eye, hand, foot , an arm, or leg while in the performance of duty.

While P10,000 and a maximum of P25,000 if an employee loses any part of his body which is not stated above or has been ill or unable to work for 30 days, and P25,000 in burial assistance will be extended if an employee dies while working.

Ouano-Dizon earlier said she was prompted to draft the ordinance after a government employee who has been working for city hall for the past 23 years, sought financial aid from the city government after he was hit by a passenger vehicle while supervising a clean and green activity at the Reclamation Area.

However, no aid was extended to him since no city ordinance exists which would compel the city to provide financial support. - THE FREEMAN