Hours Work & COMPENSABLE WORK HOURS

• Standard hours of work for employees

  Must not exceed eight (8) hours per day, with an obligatory less than 1 hour or 60 minutes break for lunch
• Philippine law does not prohibit work periods shorter than eight hours
• Working hours


  Includes any time when an employee is required to be on duty or at a designated workplace, any time when an employee is permitted to work, and even short rest periods taken during working hours
• Compensable hours worked


  • All time during which an employee is required to be on duty or to be at the employer's premises or to be at a prescribed workplace
  • All time during which an employee is suffered or permitted to work
• Total normal hours of work per day

  Eight (8) hours daily
• ARTICLE 83. Normal Hours of Work.
• Normal working hours


  May be reduced provided that no corresponding reduction is made on the employee's wage or salary equivalent to an 8-hour work day
• Full working day


  The number of hours required by the nature of work if less than 8 hours
• Flexible working hours


  Alternative arrangements or schedules other than the traditional or standard work hours, workdays and workweek
• Flexible work arrangements


  Should be temporary in nature
• Health workers in big cities and big hospitals

  1. Work eight hours a day, five days a week, not counting meal times

  2. Work six days a week or forty-eight hours, should get paid extra for the sixth day
• Hours worked


  • All time during which an employee is required to be on duty or to be at a prescribed workplace
  • All time during which an employee is suffered or permitted to work