Election Day pay rules issues

The Department of Labor and Employment reminded employers in the private sector to observe proper payment of wages to their employees who will be working on Monday, Election Day.

In an advisory, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said employees working on May 13 were entitled to an additional 30 percent of their daily pay.

President Duterte has declared Monday as a special nonworking holiday to enable the public to exercise their right to vote in the midterm elections.

For work done in excess of eight hours (overtime), he/she shall be paid an additional 30 percent of his/her hourly rate on the said day.

If an employee works on a special holiday that also falls on his/her rest day, he/she shall be paid an additional 50 percent of his/her daily rate on the first eight hours of work. —Tina G. Santos