QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 1054)
RA 1054 applies to the owner, lessee, or operator of any shop, factory, estate, or commercial, industrial or agricultural establishment (or branch thereof), whether individual, corporation, partnership, or government-owned/controlled entity, including the National Government and provincial or municipal governments and other political subdivisions.
To furnish free emergency medical and dental attendance to employees and laborers in the covered establishments, with requirements depending on the number of workers.
The employer must keep a stock of emergency medicines under the charge of a nurse and furnish free emergency medical and dental attendance, unless within a one-kilometer radius there is a public dispensary furnishing free medicine to poor applicants or a pharmacy where the employer can buy the medicines, subject to the discretion of the Secretary of Labor or authorized representatives.
No. The text provides that the exemption shall not apply where the number of employees exceeds one hundred but is not greater than two hundred.
In addition to keeping a stock of emergency medicines under a nurse, the employer must employ the services of a permanent or retained physician and a permanent or retained dentist and provide a room of strong materials, properly ventilated, and adequate to meet emergency cases.
The employer must, in addition to the medicines, physician, and dentist requirements, maintain a dental clinic and an infirmary or emergency hospital with sufficient capacity of one bed for each hundred employees. This can be waived if a dental clinic and hospital exist within two kilometers and the employer can reserve the necessary number of beds through an agreement.
Beds may be increased to three for each two hundred laborers and employees, depending on the nature of the establishment, at the discretion of the Secretary of Labor.
They must subject all employees to a medical and dental examination at least once a year, and must make detailed monthly and annual reports of all services rendered.
Generally, no. Section 3 states the owner/lessee/operator shall not be held liable for failing to furnish medical or dental treatment of other than an emergency nature as prescribed by the Act and implementing rules.
The employer is not held liable for failing to provide adequate emergency treatment in epidemics, catastrophes, fires, or other disasters resulting in an extraordinarily large number of sick and injured, or creating a situation that makes proper furnishing of medical/dental attendance prescribed by the Act difficult.
No. Acceptance is entirely optional with the laborer or employee (or with his family or the person authorized to speak for the sick or injured employee). The employer is not liable for consequences of the medical or dental treatment provided under the Act that the employee elects to accept.
It includes all laborers and employees financially dependent for their work and subsistence upon the owner, lessee, or operator of the establishment.
To prescribe the kinds and quantities of medicines and the conditions of the dental clinic and infirmary/hospital; ensure enforcement by inspecting covered establishments at intervals of not more than six months; and issue rules and regulations necessary to carry out the Act.
They may be purchased or requisitioned from the Bureau of Supply through the Secretary of Labor, and if so furnished, they must be provided at the same prices as the Government pays for them.
Upon conviction, a fine of not less than twenty-five pesos nor more than three hundred pesos. Upon second or subsequent conviction, the court may order the definite closing of the establishment.
The president, manager, or, if absent, the person acting as such at the time of the violation.
The managing head is held liable, except when it is shown the violation was due to the act or omission of another person over whom the managing head has no control; in that case, the latter person is held liable. If the National Government or any provincial or municipal government (or political subdivision) owns the establishment, the officer with direct charge, control, or supervision is held liable.
Three months after its approval (approved June 12, 1954), meaning it took effect three months thereafter.