The Department of Labor and Employment have already issued the pay rules for the August 9, 2013 regular holiday in the Philippines in observance of Eid’l Fitr, or the Feast of Ramadan.
The DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz issued Labor Advisory No. 03, Series of 2013, providing guidelines on the correct payment of wages of private sector workers for work done during this day.
According to the advisory, the following pay rules apply:
1. If the employee did not work; he or she shall be paid 100 percent of his or her salary for that day [(Daily Rate + Cost of Living Allowance) x 100%];
2. For work done during the regular holiday, the employees shall be paid 200 percent of his or her regular salary for that day for the first eight hours
[(Daily Rate + Cost of Living Allowance) x 200%];
3. For work done in excess of eight hours (overtime work), he or she shall be paid an additional 30 percent of his or her hourly rate on said day [(Hourly rate of the basic daily wage x 200% x 130% x number of hours worked];
4. For work done during a regular holiday that also falls on his or her rest day, he or she shall be paid an additional 30 percent of his her daily rate of 200 percent [(Daily Rate + Cost of Living Allowance) x 200%] + [30% (Daily Rate x 200%)]; and
5. For work done in excess of eight hours (overtime work) during a holiday that also falls on his or her rest day, he or she shall be paid an additional 30 percent of his or her hourly rate on said day (Hourly rate of the basic daily wage x 200% x 130% x 130% x number of hours worked).
