DEPARTMENT of Labor (Dole) 7 Director Johnson Cañete urged employers to observe the rules for pay on Tuesday, Aug. 21, which is both a special non-working day and a regular holiday.

“They also have to religiously take note of the new existing rates applicable in Central Visayas in their computation,” Cañete said.

He said employers are to pay 100 percent of the worker’s daily salary if the workers do not report to work on a regular holiday. But for work done during a regular holiday that also falls on a special day, workers should be paid 260 percent of their daily rate.

“It means to say that the 200 percent of the workers’ daily rate is added to the 30 percent of that rate of 200 percent. It means further that if a worker receives P500 daily rate, he would be paid P1,000 and an additional P300, which is the result of getting 30 percent of the P1,000 or 60 percent of his daily rate of P500,” he said.

He added that for work done in excess of eight hours, or overtime work, on the same day, workers should be paid an additional 30 percent of their hourly rate.

Cañete clarified that employers should exercise extra caution in their computations. There is another computation to follow for work done on Aug. 21 if it also happens to be a worker’s rest day. In that case, Cañete said, the worker should be paid 300 percent of the daily rate. EOB