The Workers\u2019 Compensation Commission under the CNMI Department of Commerce, which receives an average of three claims a day, processed a total of 340 claims filed in 2016.<\/p>\n
At the same time, Workers\u2019 Compensation director Frank Cabrera said the law that created the workers\u2019 compensation program, Public Law 6-93, is effective and in operation to this day. In fact, the commission is the last clearinghouse for all and any business license applicant in the CNMI. Without their approval, one cannot be issued a business license.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou won\u2019t be able to get you business license because the law states that the secretary of Commerce shall not approve or grant certification or certificate of compliance if company is not in full compliance of the CNMI laws,\u201d said Cabrera.<\/p>\n
He said his office makes sure that new or continuing businesses meet compliance pursuant to the statute. \u201cSo if you are a business, you need to provide worker\u2019s compensation to your employee(s) 30 days upon hiring,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
WCC provides financial protection to both workers and employees from work-related injuries, illness, or death. The commission, however, does not provide insurance coverage as private companies provide that. \u201cWe are like the police, so to speak. The commission is mandated to ensure proper monitoring and enforcement of program in the CNMI regardless if you are a single proprietorship or a corporation.\u201d (Bea Cabrera)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Workers\u2019 Compensation Commission under the CNMI Department of Commerce, which receives an average of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[56,26,16057,17014],"class_list":["post-253412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-business-3","tag-cnmi","tag-frank-cabrera","tag-workers-compensation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}