Practice question
A covered employee performs eight hours of actual ordinary-day work and takes an additional thirty-minute meal under a valid paid shortened-meal exception. No special schedule or higher rate applies, and the regular hourly rate is PHP 100. What total compensation follows for the 8.5 compensable hours?
- PHP 862.50
- PHP 800
- PHP 850
- PHP 812.50
- PHP 400
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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