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Article 93 and 94 of the 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 wage. [10]
Employees required to work due to their nature of their work are paid extra of their daily rate and cost of living daily allowance depending if the holiday is a regular (200%) or a special non-working holiday (130%). [1] If a holiday falls on a non-working day for the employee, the employee is not compensated.
As of 2011, it is estimated that about 7M are underemployed. It went back up after it fell in 2010 at 6.5M. Visibly underemployed people, people working less than 40 hours per week, cover 57% while the rest is made up by Invisible underemployed people, those who work over 40 hours per week but wants more hours. [4] [8]
Employees could get the right to a four-day working week under new laws being considered by Labour as part of their package for workers.. This would come in the form of “compressed hours ...
Some companies work a half day on Saturdays. Shops, supermarkets and shopping centres are open seven days a week and on most public holidays. 'Foreign workers', for example domestic helpers and construction workers (typically from the Philippines and India, respectively), usually work 6 days per week, having Sunday as their only day off. South ...
On top of these pay rules, an employee shall be given an additional 30% if the holiday falls on their rest day, and an additional 30% if they work overtime. On a regular holiday, if the employee did not work, they are entitled 100% of their daily wage. However, a special non-working day usually follows a 'No Work, No Pay' principle.
While it is not official government policy to support a four-day working week, the government is no longer objecting to the move
The compressed week proposal is part of a swath of new initiatives to give U.K. workers more flexible working arrangements and bring the country closer in line with other European nations.