and Employment, and the parties’ Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) bind the seaman and his employer to each other.[19]   Section 20 (B), paragraph 3 of the 2000 POEA-SEC[20] reads:   Section 20-B. Compensation and Benefits for Injury or Illness.      The liabilities of the employer when the seafarer suffers work-related injury or illness during the term of his contract are as follows:   x  x  x  x   6. In case of permanent total or partial disability of the seafarer caused by either injury or illness the seafarer shall be compensated in accordance with the schedule of benefits enumerated in Section 32 of this Contract. Computation of his benefits arising from an illness or disease shall be governed by the rates and the rules of compensation applicable at the time the illness or disease was contracted. [Emphasis supplied.]     For disability to be compensable under Section 20 (B) of the 2000 POEASEC, two elements must concur: (1) the injury or illness must be work-related; and (2) the work-related injury or illness must have existed during the term of the seafarer’s employment contract.[21] In other words, to be entitled to compensation and benefits under this provision, it is not sufficient to establish that the seafarer’s illness or injury has rendered him permanently or partially disabled; it must also be shown that there is a causal connection between the seafarer’s illness or injury and the work for which he had been contracted.[22]   The 2000 POEA-SEC defines “work-related injury” as “injury(ies) resulting in disability or death arising out of and in the course of employment” and “workrelated illness” as “any sickness resulting to disability or death as a result of an occupational disease listed under Section 32-A of this contract with the conditions set therein satisfied.”   Under Section 20 (B), paragraphs (2) and (3) of the 2000 POEA-SEC, it is the company-designated physician who is entrusted with the task of assessing the seaman’s disability, thus: