Practice question
A covered private hospital invokes service exigencies requiring its health personnel to work a sixth eight-hour day. It pays only the ordinary daily rate and says the five-day rule has no pay consequence. Which is correct?
- Article 83 provides at least 30% additional compensation of the regular wage for work on that sixth day.
- A sixth day can never carry additional compensation.
- Service exigency automatically cancels all wage rules.
- Only the worker’s profession determines any rate without law.
- The hospital may replace wages with a thank-you letter.
Legal references
- Labor Code Articles 83, 295-296 and 301 (renumbered 280-281 and 286): https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
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