QuestionsQuestions (DBM BUDGET CIRCULAR NO. 10)
It prescribes and updates the rules and procedures on the rendition of overtime services with pay of government personnel.
Overtime should be avoided through adequate planning and should not be used for regular routine work, except in unforeseen events or emergency situations that cause financial loss, embarrass the government due to inability to meet commitments, or negate the purposes for which the work/activity was conceived.
Incumbents of positions of chief of division and below (permanent, temporary, casual, or contractual personnel in the nature of regular employees), and incumbents of positions of chief of division and below designated to a position in the Career Executive Service (CES).
Exempt include: Department Secretaries; Department Undersecretaries; Department Assistant Secretaries; Bureau Directors and Regional Directors; Assistant Bureau Directors and Assistant Regional Directors; Department Service Chiefs and Assistant Department Service Chiefs; equivalent positions in SUCs/LGUs/GOCCs/GFIs; intermediate positions in-between as allowed/created; elective officials; and other appointive officials whose equivalent rank is higher than chief of division.
Overtime services include work rendered beyond eight (8) work hours of a regular work day; work on rest days (e.g., Saturdays and Sundays); and work on holidays or non-working days.
H.R. = Actual Salary Per Month / (22 x 8).
Overtime Pay = 1.25 x H.R. x No. of Hours Rendered (i.e., add 25% of the hourly rate).
Overtime Pay = 1.50 x H.R. x No. of Hours Rendered (i.e., add 50% of the hourly rate).
Total overtime pay for the year shall not exceed fifty percent (50%) of the employee’s annual basic salary.
It is based on the rate exclusive of the 20% premium.
Authority is subject to Civil Service Commission (CSC) rules, particularly Rule XVII on Government Office Hours.
No. Meal Allowance as a form of payment of overtime services shall no longer be allowed.
(1) amounts specifically appropriated in the agency budget for overtime pay; and (2) savings from released allotments for current operating expenditures, subject to mandatory expense payment first and a yearly cap of 5% of total salaries of authorized positions.
All authorized mandatory expenses must have been paid first; and total overtime payments in a given calendar year must not exceed five percent (5%) of the total salaries of authorized positions of the agency.
No prior authority is needed, provided the limitations in Section 8.1.2 are fully satisfied.
Funding shall be sourced from their respective corporate, local, and project funds.
It took effect on April 1, 1996.