"Going to" and "Coming from the Place of Work" Rule

July 5, 1988ECC BOARD RESOLUTION NO. 3914-A-88"GOING TO" AND "COMING FROM THE PLACE OF WORK" RULEWHEREAS, in several regular meetings that the Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC) Board of Commissioners has held since 1987, the Board has taken cognizance of the need to come up with a new, operative principle to underpin an updated, definitive, fair and just policy aimed at causing the provision of benefits to employees or covered members, who suffer injury or die in accidents, while they are in route to, or coming from, the workplace; and WHEREAS, during the 11th regular meeting of the ECC Board of Commissioners, series of 1988, held on July 5, 1988, the Board developed the general agreement that whether an accident wherein an employee suffers an injury or dies, occurs proximate to, or not, to his workplace, the assumption or operating principle is that such an employee will not meet an accident and get injured or die, if he is not going to or coming from work, or he does not carry out an official directive of...