Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
15™ Congress
Second Regular Session
Quezon City

House Bill No, _ 60.88

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE JU

OMAR C. EBDANE.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to further amend Presidential Decree 1146, AMENDING,
EXPANDING, INCREASING AND INTEGRATING THE SOCIAL SECURITY AND
INSURANCE BENEFITS OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND FACILITATING THE
PAYMENT THEREOF UNDER COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 186, AS AMENDED, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES, for the purpose of amending the definition of secondary
beneficiaries as well as expanding the maternity benefits of the women workers
in the public sector.

It is a declared policy of the state to “protect working women by providing
safe and healthful working conditions, taking into account their maternal
functions, and such facilities and opportunities that will enhance their welfare
and enable them to realize their full potential in the service of the nation”. More
so, the state recognizes the role of the women in nation building and shall
ensure the fundamental equality before the law of women and men (Sec. 14,
Art XIII).


Moreover, the Philippines is likewise committed to the policy adopted by
the International Labor Organization to “adopt maternity benefits sufficient for
the full and healthy maintenance‘of the woman and her child in accordance with
a suitable standard of living. (ILO Convention No. 103, Article 4 (2))

Unfortunately, women employees working in the government do not enjoy
the same privileges enjoyed by workers in the private sector.

Hence, the passage of this bill is earnestly sought for.

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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
15™ Congress
Second Regular Session
‘Quezon City

io, 0088

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE JUN OMAR C. EBDANE

FURTHER AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1146, AS
AMENDED INCREASING THE BENE F THE
GOVERNMENT SERVIC NSURANCE tM AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. Presidential Decree.No. 1146, as amended, otherwise known as the
“Revised Government Service Insurance Act of 1977”, is hereby further amended
to read as follows:

SECTION 2(h). Secondary beneficiaries shall be in accordance with the
Law on Succession under the New Civil Code.

Secondary dependents shall be the following:

“(a) Dependent parent who is receiving regular support from
the employee without age qualification;

“(b) Relatives up to the fourth civil degree of consanguinity
not gainfully employed and has not reached twenty one (21)
years of age, or if even twenty one (21) years of age, he is
congenitally of while still a minor has been permanently
incapacitated and incapable of self-support, physically or
mentally;


“(c) Those who are designated by the employee.

SECTION 15-A. Maternity Leave Benefit. - A covered female
employee who has paid at least three monthly maternity contributions in
the twelve-month period preceding the semester of her childbirth,
abortion or miscarriage and who is currently employed shall be paid a
daily maternity benefit equivalent to one hundred percent (100%) of her
present basic salary, allowances and other benefits or the cash equivalent
of such benefits for sixty (60) days subject to the following conditions:

“(a) That the employee shall have notified her employer of her
Pregnancy and the probable date of her childbirth which notice shall be
transmitted to the GSIS in accordance with the rules and regulations it
may provide;

“(b) That the payment shall be advanced by the GSIS in two equal
installments within thirty (30) days from the filing of the maternity leave
application; f

“(c) That the case of caesarian delivery, the employee shall be paid
the daily maternity benefit:for seventy-eight (78) days;

“(d) That payment of daily maternity benefits shall be a bar to the
recovery of sickness bénefits provided by this Act for the same
compensable period of sixty (60) days for the same childbirth, abortion, or
miscarriage;

“(e) That the maternity benefits provided under this Section shall
be paid only for the first four deliveries after the effectivity of this act;
and, {

“(f) That if an employee should give birth or suffer abortion or
miscarriage without the required contributions having been remitted for
her by her employer to the GSIS, or without the latter having been
previously notified by the employer of the time of the pregnancy, the
employer shall pay to the GSIS damages equivalent to the benefits which
said employee would otherwise have been entitled to, and the GSIS shall
in turn pay such amount to the employee concerned.”

SECTION 2. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as to diminish existing
benefits under the present laws and collective negotiation agreements.


SECTION 3. All laws, executive orders, proclamations, presidential decrees,
rules and regulations, and other issuances, or parts thereof, inconsistent, with
the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed accordingly.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take: effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in
the Official Gazette or in at least two (2) national newspapers of general
circulation, whichever comes earlier.

Approved.