Release 13th month pay early to spare workers from holiday rush: DOLE

Department of Labor and Employment (Photo courtesy of DOLE / PNA)

By Ferdinand Patinio | Philippine News Agency

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) appealed to private sector employers not to wait for the Dec. 24 deadline in releasing the 13th month pay of their workers.

Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma said the mandatory benefit is equivalent to an employee’s one month salary.

“We appeal to them to give it to the employees as early as possible to avoid the holiday rush and for them (workers) to be able to budget for what they will receive for their 13th month pay,” he said in a radio interview Thursday.

All rank-and-file employees must be paid their 13th month pay regardless of their position, designation, or employment status.

Also entitled to the benefit are rank-and-file employees who are paid on a piece-rate basis, fixed, or guaranteed wage plus commission; those with multiple employers; those who resigned within the year; those who were terminated from employment within the year; or those who were on maternity leave and received salary differential.

For the computation of the 13th month pay, it should not be less than 1/12 of the total basic salary earned by a worker within a calendar year.

The 13th month pay is mandatory under the Labor Code of the Philippines and Presidential Decree No. 851.

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