Most Philippine employers think of salary deductions as a matter of company policy. The Labor Code treats them as the opposite: a deduction is presumed unlawful unless a specific legal ground allows it. That reversal is where the exposure sits. A ₱500 uniform deduction feels trivial. Multiplied across a workforce, repeated every cut-off, and traced
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13th Month Pay in the Philippines: Accrual, Budgeting, and Common Mistakes (2026 Guide)
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Most Philippine employers treat 13th month pay as a December problem. It is actually a January-to-December problem that only becomes visible in December — and by then, the two things that go wrong most often (a cash shortfall and a computation error) are both expensive to fix. The obligation itself is settled law and has
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Payroll Cycle Best Practices in the Philippines: Avoiding Late or Incorrect Salary Disbursement
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Payroll is the one HR process where “almost right” doesn’t exist. A recruitment metric can slip a week and nobody outside HR notices. A salary that lands two days late, or lands short by ₱1,400, is felt immediately by every affected employee — and in the Philippines, it also has a statutory dimension. Late wages
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Overtime, Night Shift Differential, and Rest Day Pay: A Philippine Payroll Computation Guide
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Ask any Philippine payroll officer which computations cause the most disputes, and three usually top the list: overtime, night shift differential, and rest day pay. Each has its own multiplier under the Labor Code, and the real headache starts when they stack — an employee who works overtime, at night, on their rest day, all
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Wage Orders and Regional Minimum Wage Updates: What Payroll Teams Must Adjust
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Unlike SSS, PhilHealth, or Pag-IBIG contributions, which follow a single national table, the minimum wage in the Philippines is not one number — it’s 17 separate numbers, one per region, each set independently by its own Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) and revised on its own schedule. A payroll team running operations in
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Separation Pay and Final Pay in the Philippines: Computation and the 30-Day Rule (2026)
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Every employment relationship in the Philippines ends with a final pay computation. Only some of them end with separation pay. Confusing the two is the single most common mistake in Philippine offboarding. An employee who resigns is owed a final pay but no separation pay. An employee made redundant is owed both — and the
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Holiday Pay and Premium Pay Rules in the Philippines: 2026 Computation Guide
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The 2026 Holiday Calendar Under Proclamation No. 1006, s. 2025, the Philippines has 10 regular holidays and 8 special (non-working) days for 2026, plus Eid’l Fitr and Eid’l Adha (dates proclaimed separately based on the Islamic calendar). Regular Holidays 2026: January 1 — New Year’s Day March 20 — Eid’l Fitr April 2 — Maundy
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