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Practice question: Service Incentive Leave

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Practice question

An employee already enjoys six days of paid annual vacation satisfying the statutory equivalent-benefit condition. Does Article 95 alone necessarily require five additional SIL days on top?
  1. No; the provision excludes those already enjoying qualifying paid vacation of at least five days
  2. Yes, every leave benefit must always be duplicated
  3. Yes, the equivalent-benefit exception was never written
  4. Only if the employee changes surnames
  5. Yes, because six is fewer than five

Legal references

  • Labor Code, Article 95(b); Omnibus Rules, Book III, Rule V, Section 6: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442a_1974.html

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