Practice question
An employee called a manager spends the shift on ordinary clerical duties, directs nobody, and has no hiring/firing authority or influential recommendations. The employer invokes only the title to deny night differential. Assuming no other exclusion, which is correct?
- The title alone does not satisfy the managerial exemption
- The title conclusively defeats coverage
- Working at a desk establishes management
- Every monthly-paid worker is exempt
- Absence of subordinates proves managerial status
Legal references
- DOLE 2024 Handbook, Night Shift Differential coverage and computation: https://nwpc.dole.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Workers-Statutory-Monetary-Benefits-Handbook-2024-Edition.pdf
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