GUIDE ON LABOR LAW Flashcards
The term “________” refers simply to the lowest basic wage rate fixed by law that an employer can pay his workers.
- statutory minimum wages
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The ________ rates for agriculture and non-agricultural workers and employees in every region shall be those prescribed by the __________ which shall in no case be lower than the statutory minimum wage rates.
- Minimum wage
- Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB)
Principle of non _________ or non ______ of benefits
This principle mandates that the ________ or ______ or______ by employers of any benefits, supplements or payments as provided in existing laws, individuals agreements or collective bargaining agreements between workers and employers or voluntary employer practice or policy, is not allowed
- Non elimination or Non diminution of Benefits
- reduction or diminution or withdrawal
It refers to the order promulgated by the ________ pursuant to its wage fixing authority.
- Regional Tripartite Wage and
It refers to the order promulgated by the ________ pursuant to its wage fixing authority.
Whenever conditions in a particular region warrant, the RTWPB shall investigate and study all pertinent facts and based on the standards and criteria herein prescribed, shall proceed to determine whether a ____ should be issued.
- Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board (RTWPBs)
- Wage Order
Any Wage Order shall take effect after ______ days from its complete publication in at least 1 newspaper of general circulation in the region.
- 15 days
Any party aggrieved by the ______ issued by the ____ may appeal such order to the ____________ within ____ calendar days from the publication of such order. The filling of the appeal does not stay the order or suspend the effectivity thereof unless the person appealing such order shall file with the Commission, an undertaking with a surety or securities satisfactory to the commission for the payment to the employees affected by the order of the corresponding increase, in the event such order is affirmed.
- Wage Order
- Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board (RTWPB)
- National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC)
- 10 days
“_______” is a situation where an increase in prescribed wage rates results in the elimination or serve contraction of intentional quantitative differences in wage or salary rates between and among employee groups in an establishment as to effectively obliterate the distinction embodied in such wage structure based on skills, length of service, or other logical bases of differentiation.
- Wage Distortion
_______ is a premium given to employees pursuant to law even if he is not suffered to work on a ______.
- If worker did not work on regular holiday, he is entitled to _____ of his basic pay;
- If he worked, he is entitled to ___ thereof.
- Holiday pay
- regular holiday.
- 100%
- 200%
The Labor Code does not exclude monthly-paid employees from the benefits of holiday pay. However, the implementing rules on holiday pay excluded monthly-paid employees from the said benefits by inserting under RA ___, Book ___ of the said rules. Section ____ which provides that monthly-paid employees are presumed to be paid for all days in the month, whether worked or not.
In Policy Instructions No. ___, the Secretary of Labor categorically declared that the benefit is intended primarily for daily-paid employees when the law clearly states that every worker should be paid their regular holiday pay.
- Rule IV, Book III
- Section 2
- No. 9
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R.A No. ____ ( November 13, ___). List of the 11 regular holidays and two special days.
- R.A No. 9177
- November 13, 2002
“regular holidays” and “special days”:
a. A covered employee who does not work during regular holidays is paid ___ of his regular daily wage; while a covered employee who does not work during a special day does not receive any compensation under the principle of ______.
b. A covered employee who works during regular holidays is paid _____ of his regular daily wage; while a covered employee who works during special days is only paid an additional compensation of not less than _____ of the basic pay or a total of ____ and at least _____ over and above the basic pay or a total of _____, if the worker is permitted or suffered to work on special days which fall on his scheduled rest day.
- 100%
- “no work, no pay
- 200%
- 30% or the total of 130%
- 50% or the total of 150 %
R. A. ____ uses “________” instead of “Special Days” in describing All Saints Day and Last Day of the Year which were described as such under Executive Order No. 203 [June 30, 1987]).
- R. A. 9177
- Special Holidays
The principle of “_____” applies to special days but not to unworked ______ where the employees are always paid the equivalent of 100% of their basic pay.
- no work, no pay
- regular holidays
The rule in case of _________ is as follows: An employee may not be paid for both holidays if he absents himself from work on the day immediately preceding the first holiday, unless he works on the first holiday, in which case, he is entitled to his holiday pay on the ______.
- successive regular holidays
- second holiday
