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Practice question: Payment by Hours Worked

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

A covered hourly employee works ten actual hours on an ordinary day at PHP 80 per hour. There is no valid compressed workweek, exemption or more favorable rate. The employer says its eight-hour daily minimum fully pays all ten hours. What total minimum compensation is due for that day?
  1. PHP 640
  2. PHP 800
  3. PHP 200
  4. PHP 840
  5. PHP 1,000

Legal references

  • Labor Code, DOLE consolidated 2022 edition, specified articles: https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/15242/PHL15242%202022.pdf — Articles 83–87,99; RA 6727 implementing rules, Chapter I Sections7,9: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra 1989/ra_6727_1989.html

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