Baldoz: Workers get holiday pay today
By Mina Diaz 05/01/2012The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) advised all employers to observe the correct pay rules on Labor Day, which is a holiday.
DoLE Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz urged all employers in the country’s private sector to bear at heart the welfare and protection of workers by observing the pay rules and other general labor standards for the regular holiday.
This year’s Labor Day celebration is the 110th in Philippine history and is being commemorated in honor of all Filipino workers with the theme, Pagtutulungan. Pagbabago. Disenteng trabaho.
Baldoz said that if a holiday falls on an employee’s regular workday, and the employee reports he is entitled to 200 percent of his basic wage on the first eight hours and, for work in excess of eight hours, to an additional 30 percent of his hourly rate on the said day. If the employee is absent, he is entitled to 100 percent of the regular daily rate, provided he was present, or was on leave with pay, on the workday immediately preceding the holiday..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20120501nat5.html
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