Service Incentive Leave

Question 1

What article govern the Service Incentive Leave?

Answer 1

Article 95

Question 2

How many days covered by the SIL

Answer 2

5 days leave with pay

Question 3

What is the qualification in availing the SIL

Answer 3

Employee should at least rendered 1 year of service to the company.

Question 4

Who are the personnel not qualified for SIL?

Answer 4

1. Government employees, whether employed by the National Government or any of its political subdivisions, including those employed in government-owned and/or controlled corporations with original charters or created under special laws;
2. Persons in the personal service of another;
3. Managerial employees, if they meet all of the following conditions:
   3.1 Their primary duty is to manage the establishment in which they are employed or of a department or subdivision thereof;
   3.2 They customarily and regularly direct the work of two or more employees therein; and
   3.3 They have the authority to hire or fire other employees of lower rank; or their suggestions and recommendations as to hiring, firing, and promotion, or any other change of status of other employees are given particular weight.
4. Officers or members of a managerial staff, if they perform the following duties and responsibilities:
   4.1 Primarily perform work directly related to management policies of their
   employer;
   4.2 Customarily and regularly exercise discretion and independent judgment;
   4.3 Regularly and directly assist a proprietor or managerial employee in the
   management of the establishment or subdivision thereof in which he or she is employed; or (b) execute, under general supervision, work along specialized or technical lines requiring special training, experience, or knowledge; or (c) execute, under general supervision, special assignments and tasks; and
   4.4 Do not devote more than twenty percent (20%) of their hours worked in a workweek to activities which are not directly and closely related to the performance of the work described in paragraphs 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 above;
5. Field personnel and those whose time and performance is unsupervised by the employer;
6. Those already enjoying this benefit;
7. Those enjoying vacation leave with pay of at least five (5) days; and
8. Those employed in establishments regularly employing less than ten (10)
   employees.

Question 5

Is service rendered by the employee wether continues or broken considered as 1 year and he is entitled for SIL?

Answer 5

YES whether the service is continuous or broken as long as it is covered for 1 year then he is entitled for SIL

Question 6

Can SIL be used for sick and vacation leave purposes. Yes or No?

Answer 6

YES it can be used for the purpose of vacation or sick leave

Question 7

The unused service incentive leave is commutable to its money equivalent at the end of the year, true or not?

Answer 7

True it can be convertible to cash.

Question 8

Show us the computation for SIL

Answer 8

SIL FOR 1 year is equivalent to 5 days

Unused SL can be divided in two 12 x 5 days