DOLE Issues Pay Rules for Eid’l Fitr (Ramadan) Holiday 2013

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 … Read more

Ramadan 2013 to Start on July 10 (Wednesday)

The “Darul Iftah” or the “House of Opinions,” in Central Mindanao declared July 10 (Wednesday) as the start of the Ramadan fasting season after scholars failed to see the new moon the past two nights in the centuries-old moon-sighting tradition determining the advent of the “holy month” where Muslims fast at daytime for one lunar … Read more