Practice question
Does operating on backup power while employees continue assigned duties make their time unpaid merely because the main supply failed?
- Yes, generator-powered work is outside labor law
- Yes, all main-supply failures stop wages
- No
- Yes, equipment ownership determines all pay
- Yes, only visible electric lighting creates work time
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
- Durabuilt Recapping Plant & Co. v. NLRC, G.R. No. L-76746, July 27, 1987, MAIN decision, Policy Instruction No. 36 quoted: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1987/jul1987/gr_l-76746_1987.html
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