We celebrate holidays to commemorate an event or a person of special significance to the country. While the declaration of holidays is supposed to bring unity, it sometimes results to confusion in the workplace, even if unintended.
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Is Eid’l Adha a Regular National Holiday?
The month of November contains 3 national holidays, with 2 long weekends. The first long weekend is All Saints’ Day in November 1 and the additional special non-working holiday in November 2 declared by the President under Proclamation 1699. That’s from October 31 to November 2 (Saturday to Monday). The second long weekend is from [...]
National Regular and Special Holidays for 2008 in the Philippines
Somebody asked if 25 February 2008 has been declared as a non-working holiday, to give everyone a chance to commemorate EDSA People Power. Well, I’m not yet aware of any Proclamation issued by the President on this matter, so all we can do is wait. In the meantime, here are the regular holidays and nationwide [...]
More long weekends for the rest of 2007
There are more long weekends to come. This early, searches have reached this site looking for public holidays for the rest of the year – October, November and December (time flies so fast). Here are the remaining declared public holidays for 2007 (and one for 2008):
Computation of pay for holidays: Regular, special non-working, special working
One of the more confusing matters, for employees and HR people alike, is the computation of holiday pay, complicated by the fact that there are different “kinds” of holidays. This is cleared by Memorandum Circular No. 1 of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the full text of which is reproduced and discussed below.
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