Bello tells employers: Pay proper May 1 wages, benefits

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Monday reminded employers to pay their workers the proper wages and benefits on Labor Day.

Bello said employers should follow the rules on holiday pay after President Rodrigo Duterte declared May 1 a regular holiday under Proclamation No. 269.

“For work done during the regular holiday, the employee shall be paid 200 percent of his or her regular salary for that day for the first eight hours,” Bello said.

“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 or her daily rate of 200 percent,” he added.

Employees who will not render work on Labor Day should be paid 100 percent of his or her salary for that day. —Tina G. Santos