Yay or nay? Netizens weigh in on House bill barring employers from calling workers during rest hours - Interaksyon
A lawmaker recently proposed a bill defining a worker’s resting hours and prohibiting employers from calling or asking to work during this period.
Under House Bill 10717, titled the “Workers’ Rest Law”, employers, managers and other similar agents are prohibited from contacting employees or requiring them to be on duty during their rest hours.
Rest hours are also defined as “any period other than the hours of work.”
The Labor Code of the Philippines mandated that the normal working hours should not exceed eight hours a day.
In Section 6, unless the worker gives consent, employers are prohibited from doing the following beyond working hours:
- Requiring an employee to report to work
- Requiring an employee to be on duty, to travel or attend work-related activities
- Contact the employee for work and work-related purposes via phone, email and other means of communication
Employers who violate the provisions of the bill shall pay P1,000 to the employee per hour of additional work rendered.
Rep. Joaquin Chipeco (Calamba City), who filed this bill, created this to help Filipino employees attain a healthy work-life balance, citing similar a move in other European countries.
“This bill seeks to uphold the letter and the spirit of our labor laws which is to respect mandated rest hours for our workers and prohibit the various forms of abuses in that connection,” Chipeco said in the explanatory note.
The counterpart of this is Senate Bill 2475 filed by Sen. Francis Tolentino last...
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