While there was an earlier release sometime in October that the Department of Labor and Employment is allowing businesses to defer or withhold the 13th month pay from the employees, the issue was finally put to an end and has been retracted.
Good news to all employees, your monetary benefit that is of your legal right as working citizen shall be given even at this time of pandemic period.
Attaching here is the Labor Advisory no 28 and how is the 13th month pay works in the Philippines.
https://www.dole.gov.ph/php_assets/uploads/2020/10/Labor-Advisory-No.-28-20-Guidelines-on-the-Payment-of-Thirteenth-Month-Pay.pdf
Again,
No deferment of 13th-month pay.
Hey! This is my first blog entry as your HR partner. ;-)
Appreciate your support. See you next update entry. <3
