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81:. The prevailing labor code allows the typical working hour to be 8 hours a day, i.e. 48 hours a week with the provision that at least a day should be allowed to the workers as weekly off. The minimum age allowed for employment is considered 15 years in the Philippines, unless the individuals are working under direct supervision of their parents.
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services is seasonal and the employment is for the duration of the season. The employment is said to be casual if his nature of work has not been covered by the aforementioned sentences. After a year of rendering service, whether continuous or not, an employee shall be deemed regular, as stated by
Article 280 of the Philippine Labor Code.
185:, an employer is mandated by law to give his employees thirteenth month pay. The thirteenth month pay required by law should not be less than one twelfth of the total basic salary earned by an employee within a calendar year. The thirteenth month pay is exempted from being taxed by the government. The photo below is from the
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Article 279 of the Labor code In cases of regular employment, the employer shall not terminate the services of an employee except for a just cause or when authorized by this Title. An employee who is unjustly dismissed from work shall be entitled to reinstatement without loss of seniority rights and
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other privileges and to his full backwages, inclusive of allowances, and to his other benefits or their monetary equivalent computed from the time his compensation was withheld from him up to the time of his actual reinstatement. (As amended by
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Remunerations or earnings paid by an employer to an employee for service rendered are called wages. Article 99 of the Labor Code of the
Philippines stipulates that an employer may go over but never below minimum wage. Paying below the minimum wage is illegal. The Regional Tripartite Wages and
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Philippine Labor Code states that a worker shall be paid his regular daily wage during regular holidays whether or not the employee goes to work. The employer can require an employee to work on any holiday, but the employee must be paid an amount double his regular
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states that a pregnant employee who has paid at least three monthly maternity contributions to the Social
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benefit equivalent to one hundred percent (100%) of her present basic salary, allowances and other benefits or the cash equivalent of such benefits for sixty for normal delivery a seventy-eight for caesarian delivery.
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performed beyond eight hours on a holiday or rest day shall be paid an additional compensation equivalent to the rate of the first eight hours on a holiday or rest day plus at least thirty percent (30%) thereof.
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923:"Handbook on Workers' Statutory Monetary Benefits"
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