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JUNE 2016 GS Newsletter
JUNE 2016 GS Newsletter
JUNE 2016 GS Newsletter
GGCSI ISSUE:
NAUTILUS UPDATE
ERS /ERM
Tesda had clarified that Ships’ Cook who are NC II Certified shall upgrade to NCIII in order to
be fully compliant with MLC 2006 before January 01, 2017.
The said document shall be honored by the accredited assessment center and competency
assessor up to 31 DECEMBER 2016 ONLY. Format of the certificate of Training Onboard is
included in the Attached TESDA Memorandum 68 series of 2016
2) Shipowner’s and manning agencies of those Filipino Ships’ Cooks currently onboard
and holders of National Certificates provided in item D.1.3 can on behalf of the Ships’
Attached is the issued TESDA Memorandum Circular No. 68 series of 2016 for more
information on the upgrading of Ships Cook certificate from NCII to NCIII.
him to obtain his sick wages. However, after treatment seafarer alleged that his condition
deteriorated and his chosen doctor who assessed him to be unfit to go back to work because
of his condition.
The court upheld the decision of NLRC Commission and opined the following:
And it was only 3 months after seaman was declared fit to work by the company-designated
doctors and seaman did not obtain an assessment of unfitness to work from a doctor of his
choice. Thus, when he filed his complaint for disability benefits, he clearly had as yet no
medical evidence whatsoever to support his claim of permanent and total disability.
The Court noted that there are inherent defects in the medical report issued by seaman’s
doctor to conclude that it was not the result of an honest, bona fide treatment of the seaman,
but rather one issued out of a short one-time visit. It noted that said doctor issued a pro-
forma medical certificate, with the blanks filled in his own hand. The doctor certified that
seaman's condition "did not improve despite medicine," yet nowhere did he specify what
medications, therapy or treatments he had prescribed in arriving at his unfit-to-work
assessment, nor when and how many times he had treated seaman.