4/10/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly nature and relation to the employment undertaken by David in their crude tankers. This conclusion is corroborated by respondents’ contemporaneous act of extending to David sickness allowance under Sec. 20(B) of the POEA-SEC, since an employer is liable for the payment of sickness allowance only “when the seafarer suffers work-related injury or illness during the term of his contract.” Surely, an illness that has been recognized at the outset by the employer as work-related cannot evolve to an illness not connected to the seafarer’s employment. The quantum of evidence required in labor cases to determine the liability of an employer for the illness suffered by an employee under the POEA-SEC is not proof beyond reasonable doubt but mere substantial evidence or “such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”[52] In this case, in accordance with the foregoing disquisitions, We find that there is substantial evidence to support the decision of the LA and the NLRC. WHEREFORE, the petition is GRANTED. The March 11, 2011 Decision of the CA and its June 1, 2011 Resolution are hereby REVERSED and SET ASIDE, and the January 22, 2010 and March 30, 2010 Resolutions of the NLRC are REINSTATED. SO ORDERED. Sereno,* C.J., Perez,** Mendoza, and Perlas-Bernabe,*** JJ., concur. * Additional member per Special Order No. 1311 dated September 21, 2012. ** Additional member per Special Order No. 1299 dated August 28, 2012. *** Additional member per Special Order No. 1320 dated September 21, 2012. [1] Rollo, pp. 49-62. Penned by Associate Justice Franchito N. Diamante and concurred in by Associate Justices Josefina Guevara-Salonga and Mariflor P. Punzalan Castillo. [2] Id. at 86-87. [3] CA rollo, pp. 56-78. Penned by NLRC Commissioner Teresita Castillon-Lora and concurred in by Presiding Commissioner Raul T. Aquino. Commissioner Napoleon M. Menese took no part. [4] Id. at 121. [5] Prior to the May 2006 contract, David had been working on board two other crude tankers of the respondents since December 2004. (Certification dated January 11, 2007; id. at 144.) elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/55191 8/12