Practice question
An employee freely chooses an optional company shuttle for the ordinary trip home. No driving, escort, equipment-handling or other duty is assigned during the trip, and no favorable pay agreement applies. Does provision of the vehicle alone necessarily make the commute working time?
- Yes, transport ownership replaces all duty facts
- Yes, every company vehicle trip is assigned work
- Yes, free transportation is always overtime
- Yes, every passenger becomes the driver’s employer
- No
Legal references
- Labor Code, Articles 82-93 and implementing Book III, Rule I, Sections 3-7: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
- Omnibus Rules Implementing the Labor Code, Book III, Rules I-III, hours, meals, night differential and weekly rest: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442a_1974.html
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