Practice question
A covered employee completes twelve months of service, including authorized absences and paid regular holidays. The employer excludes those days from the qualifying year and says only days of physical presence can count. No special shorter annual-work arrangement or other exclusion applies. Which is correct?
- Authorized absences erase all service
- The implementing definition includes authorized absences and paid regular holidays in the relevant service period
- Paid holidays must always reset the hiring date
- Only overtime counts toward a service year
- The employer may replace twelve months with any period it chooses
Legal references
- Omnibus Rules, Book III, Rule V, Section 3: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442a_1974.html
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