The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has urged workers who were initially denied of their claim for compensation benefits to appeal their cases before the Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC).

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd made the call on Tuesday after the ECC granted some P700 million in benefits to private- and public-sector workers who sustained job-related sickness, injury or disability in the first half of 2017.

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