Through Resolution No. 2022- 15, the union also asked for hospitalization and health care insurance benefits for the officials and employees of the provincial government.
It cited the Supreme Court case in September 2010 where the provincial government won the case against the Commission on Audit (COA) where it sustained the payment of the hospitalization and health care insurance of its officials and employees.
Meanwhile, resolution 2022-16 likewise urged the governor to grant coverage of the Negros Occidental Comprehensive Integrated Health Program (Nochip) and free medical and hospitalization services in all district and provincial hospitals for all job order and contract of services employees of the provincial government.
The resolution said that the workers “are exposed from time to time to work hazard thus, some of them have already suffered injury or involved in accidents while performing their duties.”*