Question & AnswerQ&A (Act No. 80)
According to Section 1 of Act No. 80, employees must render not less than six hours of labor each day, excluding time for lunch, Sundays, and public holidays.
Yes, the head of any department or office may extend the hours of labor for any or all employees in the interest of the public service, but such extension shall be without additional compensation.
An employee receiving an annual salary of less than six hundred dollars shall be granted fifteen days' leave during a calendar year, exclusive of Sundays and public holidays.
An employee earning one thousand eight hundred dollars or more annually is entitled to thirty-five days' leave during a calendar year.
Yes, leaves can be accumulated if an employee elects to postpone any or all of their leave. If granted leave for visiting the United States, the employee is allowed half pay in addition to their leave for the actual and necessary travel time, but this privilege can be used only once in three years and only if they have accumulated leave for two full years.
Section 3 allows a department head to grant up to sixty days of additional leave with pay in exceptional and meritorious cases of personal illness or contagious disease in an immediate family member. Further leave may be granted without pay, but if paid and unpaid leave aggregate more than six months, the employee shall be separated from service.
The appointee must pay for traveling expenses from their residence in the United States to San Francisco. The Insular Government will pay for travel from San Francisco to Manila if the travel is by the route directed by the Chief Executive of the Islands.
Half salary is allowed from the date of embarkation at San Francisco, and full salary starts from the date of arrival in the Philippines, provided the appointee proceeds directly to the Islands.
Upon retirement, the employee may request transportation from Manila to San Francisco, be allowed half salary for thirty days, and receive full salary for the period of leave entitled under this Act.
Act No. 80 took effect on its passage date, January 26, 1901.