Eight (8) hours per day or 48 hours per week. Rest periods of short duration during work hours shall be counted as hours worked.

A day is the 24-hour period which commences from the time the employee regularly starts to work.

The minimum wage rate for agricultural and non-agricultural workers in every region are determined by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board. The minimum wage rates by Region (non-agricultural jobs) as of CY 2000 are as follows:

• Wage Order # NCR 08 (Oct. 6, 2000)
• private sector workers and employees

This refers to goods, services, or other benefits furnished by an employer in cash or kind, in adddition to basic salaries; to managerial or supervisory employees such as but not limited to the following:

• Housing
• Expense Account
• Vehicle of Any Kind
• Household personnel, such as maid, driver and others
• Interest on loans at less than market rate to the extent of the difference between the market rate and actual rate granted;
• Membership fees, dues and other expenses borne by the employer for the employee in social and athletic clubs or other similar organizations;
• Holiday and vacation expenses
• Educational assistance to the employee or his dependents; and
• Life or health insurance and other non-life insurance premiums or similaramounts in excess of what the law allows

Managerial employees refer to those who are given powers or prerogatives to lay down and execute managerial policies and or to hire, transfer, suspend, lay-off, recall, discharge, assign or discipline employees.

Supervisory employees are those who effectively recommend such managerial actions if the exercise of such authority is not merely routinary or clerical in nature but requirres the use of independent judgment.

Overtime premium is allotted for work exceeding the maximum prescribed period. The OT rates per hour for overtime work rendered on the specified days:

Night-shift employees must be paid a differential of not less than 10% of the regular wage for each hour of work performed between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.

Every employee who has rendered at least one year of service is entitled to a yearly service incentive leave of five days with pay.

One-hour time-off for regular meals.

By law, companies are required to give its employees a 13th pay equivalent to one (1) month salary.

As mandated by law, both employer and employees are to contribute for the social security benefits of the employees in accordance with the following schedule:

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