Are employees legally entitled to receive holiday pay during a temporary periodic shutdown?
According to the Rules Implementing the Labor Code of the Philippines, specifically relating to Article 94, temporary organizational shutdowns do not strictly negate holiday pay. In verifiable cases of temporary or periodic cessation of work, such as yearly inventories or machinery repairs, regular holidays falling within the period must still be fully compensated. The law explicitly views these scheduled operational pauses as employer-mandated events, not unauthorized employee absences. Thus, the affected workers unconditionally retain their fundamental legal right to receive baseline statutory holiday pay during these specific shutdown periods. 15-May-26About Nicolas and De Vega Law Offices
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