13th month pay dapat maibigay hanggang Disyembre 24

DAPAT maibigay na hanggang Disyembre 24 ang 13th month pay ng mga empleyado.

Kung hindi ay mahaharap sa pagkakakulong at multa ang employer ayon sa Trade Union Congress of the Philippines.

“It is revolting to know that many businesses, employers and labor middlemen are not paying their 13th month pay obligation with their rank-and-file employees. We are inundated with workers’ rants over and over every year. It is high time for TUCP to push government for a law that considers non-payment of overtime pay and 13th month pay as theft and robbery,” ani TUCP President Raymond Mendoza.

Mayroong 920,000 work establishment sa bansa kung saan pumapasok ang 35 milyong rank-and-file employees.

“Christmas and new year season should be a happy season for the working people and their families. However, many employers spoil this by skirting away from their annual obligations by becoming a grinch and not paying their monetary obligation,” ani Mendoza.

Ang Thirteenth Month Pay Law (Presidential Decree 851) ay ipinatupad noong Disyembre 1975. Ang 13th month pay ay maaaring ibigay bago ang Disyembre 24. Kung pabor ang mga empleyado, maaari ibigay ang kalahati ng Hunyo at ang nalalabi kapag Disyembre.

Kahit na ang mga resigned o terminated na empleyado ay maaaring makakuha ng bahagi ng kanilang 13th month kung mahigit isang buwan itong nagtrabaho.