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Practice question: Payment by Hours Worked

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

A worker is paid by the hour. Management labels noon to1 p.m. a meal break but requires the worker to staff the service counter continuously during that hour and assist arriving customers. May the label alone exclude the hour?
  1. No; required duty time is compensable under Article84
  2. Yes; any meal label conclusively excludes time
  3. Yes; hourly workers must work one free hour daily
  4. Yes; customers rather than management are the employer
  5. Yes; only written customer orders create work

Legal references

  • Labor Code Articles84,88,101–105: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html Articles84–85 and88.

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