EMPLOYEES who will report for work on Tuesday can expect to get more than double their daily pay as the country will commemorate the Ninoy Aquino Day and the Muslim celebration of Eid’l Adha on the same day on August 21.
This, as the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole), in its Labor Advisory Number 12, reminded employers to strictly observe the rules on the payment of wages for August 21. The advisory confirmed that pay rules for both a regular and a special holiday will be in effect on Tuesday.
The Dole advisory said that those who will work on August 21 shall receive a double pay and an additional 30 percent, which is equivalent to 230 percent of an employee’s basic pay.
For those who will take the said day as a vacation, the DOLE said that “if an employee did not work, he/she shall still be paid 100 percent of his/her salary for that day, depending on the company’s certain conditions under the implementing rules and regulations.”
President Rodrigo Duterte signed Proclamation No. 556 declaring August 21 a regular holiday in observance of Eid’l Adha, which coincides with Ninoy Aquino Day.
The Muslim feast coincides with the death anniversary of former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr., which is listed as a special non-working day.
Aquino was assassinated on August 21, 1983 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (then known as the Manila International Airport) upon returning home from a three-year self-exile in the United States.