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A group advocating for Filipino seafarers’ rights has appealed to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. not to sign the recently ratified Magna Carta for Seafarer’s Bill which reinstates a provision that requires seamen to put up a bond for awards of disability benefits.
“President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. did not sign the old version of the bill because it was violative of the equal protection rule under the Constitution. It makes seafarers as the only group of workers, local or OFWs, who would not receive their awards immediately,” Seafarer’s Rights Philippines said.
Section 59 of the new version of the bill disallows the immediate execution or payment to the complainant-seafarers of awards they received from final judgments of the National Labor Relation Commission and the Voluntary Arbitrator under the National Conciliation and Mediation Board . Under the new version of the Magna Carta for Seafarer’s bill, the seafarer would have to put up a bond, in an amount equivalent to the award, to be able to receive his or her award.
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