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Categories: Labor Code, Philippines Tags: consultation, twitter
Service Incentive Leave
An employee (undsclosed firm/industry) sent an email yesterday asking about the number of Vacation Leave (VL) and Sick Leave (SL) credits an someone in a private firm is entitled to have or earn in a year. His previous employer allegedly gave him 20 days of VL and 10 days of SL per year, accrued monthly. In comparison, the company he currently works for only gives 10 VL and 10 SL, with cash conversion of the unused VLs only.
He was comparing notes with another officemate who was (again, allegedly) getting 30 days of VL but no SL, with cash conversion for unused leaves at the end of the year.
He wanted to file a complaint with their management but held off until he could get all his facts in order.
So – which is which? Which company was giving the correct benefit to its employees? Could he file a complaint against his current (and former) employers for failure to provide the proper leave benefits?
Categories: Labor Code, Philippines, Work Tags: benefits, service incentive leave, Sick Leave, Vacation Leave
Birthday Leave
I’ve been asked not a few times about the legal provisions of the so-called Birthday Leave, if it’s found in the Labor Code (aka Presidential Decree 442).
Now that’s an interesting thought.
Categories: Birthday, Labor Code, Law, Philippines, Presidential Decree Tags: benefit
Night Shift Differential
I’ve been asked not a few times regarding Night Differential (aka Night Shift Differential or NSD) – its coverage and amount and/or percentage. Some have sought clarification because they understood, albeit in a different way, that any work done in the evening would be paid a corresponding fixed amount per hour of work until midnight.
Categories: Labor Code, Philippines, Presidential Decree Tags: 442, night differential
Holiday Pay: Christmas
INQUIRER.net First Posted 10:52:00 12/21/2009MANILA, Philippines—Extra pay await workers who will work during the holidays: regular holidays on December 25 (Christmas Day) and December 30 (Rizal Day), and January 1 (New Year’s Day), as well as the special non-working days on December 24, and December 31, the Department of Labor and Employment said in an advisory.
Original post can be read here.
Categories: Holiday, Labor Code, Philippines, Proclamation, Republic Act, Work Tags: 1699, 442
