[10]
Id. at 78.
[11]
Supra note 2.
[12]
Rollo, pp. 30-63.
[13]
Id. at 135-177.
[14]
Standard Terms and Conditions Governing the Employment of Filipino Seafarers on Board Ocean
Going Vessels, Compensation Benefits, Sec. 20.
[15]
G.R. No. 141505, 18 August 2005, 467 SCRA 301, 309. In this case, the Court, citing NFD
International Manning Agents v. National Labor Relations Commission, 284 SCRA 239, 247 (1998), had the
occasion to rule that:
x x x it is clear from the provisions of the Standard Employment Contract that the
only condition for compensability of a seafarers death is that such death must occur during the
effectivity of the seafarers contract of employment.
[16]
G.R. No. 166580, 8 February 2007, 515 SCRA 157.
[17]
Id. at 168-169
[18]
Rollo, p. 74
[19]
388 Phil. 906 (2000).
[20]
336 Phil. 466 (1997).
[21]
330 Phil. 493 (1996).
[22]
376 Phil. 738 (1999).
[23]
Sec. 18 of the Standard Contract reads:
SECTION 18. TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT
A. The employment of the seafarer shall cease when the seafarer completes his period of
contractual service aboard the vessel, signs-of from the vessel and arrives at the point of
hire.
[24]
Wallem Maritime Services, Inc. v. NLRC, Supra note 19 at 746.
[25]
Cancer of the epithelial lining of the bladder. (Papilloma of the bladder)Work involving exposure to
alphanapthylamin or benzidine or any part of the salts; and auramine or magenta; Standard Terms and
Conditions Governing the Employment of Filipino Seafarers on Board Ocean Going Vessels, Compensation
Benefits, Sec. 20.
[26]
Standard Terms and Conditions Governing the Employment of Filipino Seafarers on Board Ocean
Going Vessels.
[27]
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/bladder_cancer/article_em.htm. (Date last visited: 3 January 2008).
[28]
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CR/content/CRI_2_4_3X_ (Date last visited: 3 January 2008).
[29]
Id.
[30]
Wallem Maritime Services, Inc. v. NLRC, supra note 19 at 749.