International Maritime Employers Council Francesco Gargiulo said the Philippines needs to address the problem that is making the country notorious among ship owners and maritime employers. | onenewsph
File photo from the Facebook page of the Maritime Industry Authority shows a Filipino crew on the bridge of a ship.
However, it noted that personal disability claims abuse has contributed to the significant drop of Filipino seafarers getting recruited in the past years. While the Philippines remains to be the biggest source of manpower for the industry, he said that competing countries with their own pool of available seafarers “have been able to take advantage of this particular situation that has been going on for years.”
A veritable “corruption ecosystem” involving ambulance chasers, seafarers and unscrupulous arbiters and arbitrators from the National Conciliation and Mediation Board and National Labor Relations Commission , both under the Department of Labor and Employment , and fixers in the judiciary has arisen and brought the extent of disability compensation abuse to sickening levels.
Ramirez, himself an accredited labor arbiter of the NCMB, confirmed the severe corruption of the system, especially at the NCMB.The Department of Migrant Workers reported that based on NCMB data, the reversed cases involved around P2.57 billion, although this represented only 23 percent of the total monetary awards made by the NCMB from 2018 to 2022.Ambulance chasing and the exploitation of the compensation system are actually a criminal act under the Seafarer Protection Act of 2015 .
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