Bunkhouse Rule

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1. What employment circumstance is central to the bunkhouse rule?
2. Does the fact that an injury occurred outside scheduled duty hours necessarily defeat the bunkhouse rule?
3. What does establishing the bunkhouse connection by itself determine?
4. A seafarer must remain aboard for the contract and is injured while making reasonable use of the required accommodation…
5. A worker chooses an optional company room purely for personal convenience and is entirely free to live elsewhere. Can t…
6. An oiler is required to live aboard during his contract governed by the 2010 POEA-SEC. He is injured in an employer-san…
7. A seafarer invokes required shipboard residence in a disability claim governed by the 2010 POEA-SEC. The employer estab…
8. Explain why an employee required to live in employer accommodation may sustain an employment-related injury outside ord…
9. Distinguish the bunkhouse rule's role in injury compensability from a claim for overtime wages.
10. Apply Arriesgado to an employer's argument that sanctioned onboard recreation can never be work-related because it is n…
11. How does Arguilles characterize foreign decisions discussed to illuminate the bunkhouse rule?
12. Which source did Arguilles identify as the main basis of the seafarer’s particular claims?