Practice question
A strenuous manual operation regularly runs only fifteen hours daily. No other Section 7 exception or valid special arrangement applies. Does that operating duration alone satisfy the sixteen-hour exception for shortening the regular meal?
- Yes, the meal can always be omitted
- Yes, fifteen hours satisfies not less than sixteen
- Yes, all manual work automatically qualifies
- Yes, a supervisor’s preference is the listed exception
- 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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