{"id":278150,"date":"2020-12-10T01:19:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T06:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=278150"},"modified":"2020-12-10T01:19:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T06:19:39","slug":"bello-reminds-employers-anew-to-give-13th-month-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/12\/10\/bello-reminds-employers-anew-to-give-13th-month-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Bello reminds employers anew to give 13th month pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_242406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242406\" style=\"width: 3698px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-242406\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3698\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3.jpg 3698w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3-1024x665.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3698px) 100vw, 3698px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-242406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre Bello III during a press conference on Thursday (Sept. 27, 2018), which is held at the DOLE main office in Intramuros, Manila.(PNA photo by Gil Calinga)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 With just 16 days before Christmas Day, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Wednesday reminded anew private sector employers to give the 13th month pay to their workers.<\/p>\n<p>DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III said companies have until December 24 to give the 13th month compensation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to remind employers to pay the 13th month pay of their workers on or before December 24,\u201d he said in a virtual forum.<\/p>\n<p>Bello said private sector employees who have been working in the company for over a month are entitled to the payment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn employee, regardless of status and has served his\/her employer for a month, is entitled to a 13th month pay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that if the employers have yet to give the 13th month pay, they still have over two weeks to pay their workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease don\u2019t forget to pay your employees\u2019 13th month pay,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Under Presidential Decree 851, all employers are mandated to pay the 13th month pay on or before December 24.<\/p>\n<p>The 13th month pay required by law shall not be less than one-twelfth of the total basic salary earned by an employee within a calendar year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 With just 16 days before Christmas Day, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Wednesday reminded anew private &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278151,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278150\/revisions\/278151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}