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Practice question: Idle, Travel, Commuting, and Waiting Time

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

Must an employee physically leave the employer’s premises for a genuinely relieved interval to be non-working time?
  1. No
  2. Yes, remaining anywhere on the property is always work
  3. Yes, only a trip home creates relief
  4. Yes, an employee’s location replaces all duty evidence
  5. Yes, personal use within the premises is legally impossible

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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