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MARIA BUENA OBRA v. SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM

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	GR No. 176832 2009-05-21	GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM v. MARIAN T. VICENCIO PUNO, C.J.
It must be remembered that P.D. No. 626, as amended, is a social legislation whose primordial purpose is to provide meaningful protection to the working class against the hazards of disability, illness and other contingencies resulting in the loss of income. Thus, the official agents charged by law to implement social justice guaranteed by the Constitution should adopt a liberal attitude in favor of the employee in deciding claims for compensability especially where there is some basis in the facts for inferring a work-connection with the illness or injury, as the case may be. It is only this kind of interpretation that can give meaning and substance to the compassionate spirit of the law as embodied in Article 4 of the New Labor Code which states that all doubts in the implementation and interpretation of the provisions of the Labor Code including their implementing rules and regulations should be resolved in favor of labor.[12]
	GR No. 160467 2009-04-07	SOLEDAD MUÑOZ MESA v. SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM CARPIO MORALES, J.
Apropos is the ruling in Buena Obra v. SSS[12] in which the Court, speaking through then Associate, now Chief Justice Puno, held that the claim for funeral benefits under P.D. No. 626, as amended, which was filed after the lapse of 10 years by the therein petitioner who had earlier filed a claim for death benefits, had not prescribed,
	GR NO. 148089 2006-03-24	JAIME M. BARRIOS v. EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION SANDOVAL-GUTIERREZ, J.
Records show that as a driver-mechanic, Barrios was tasked with transporting NIA officials, various consultants, and even World Bank officers, to different destinations in Metro Manila and the surrounding provinces of Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog. These travels required him to sit behind the wheel for many hours. Job efficiency required him to transport his passengers to their respective destinations on time. He thus faced a situation where he had to forego urinating for hours. To this must be added the stress and strain every driver encounters while on the road.[14]
	GR No. 158846 2004-06-03	GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM v. TEODOSIO CUANANG YNARES-SATIAGO, J.
Therefore, claims falling under the Employees' Compensation Act should be liberally resolved to fulfill its essence as a social legislation designed to afford relief to the working man and woman in our society. It is only this kind of interpretation that can give meaning and substance to the compassionate spirit of the law as embodied in Article 4 of the New Labor Code, which states that all doubts in the implementation and interpretation of the provisions of the Labor Code including its implementing rules and regulations should be resolved in favor of labor.[30]