Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 9) — The Senate passed on its third and final reading a bill that would grant night differential pay for government employees.
Senate Bill No. 643, or An Act Granting Night Shift Differential Pay to Government Employees Including Those in Government-Owned or Controlled Corporations (GOCCs) and Appropriating Funds Therefor, was passed by Senators on Monday.
If passed into law, government employees with Salary Grades 24 and lower, including those in GOCCs, with a night differential pay of not more than 20% of the hourly basic wage rate, for each hour of work between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
“The Labor Code of the Philippines defines night shift differential as “not less than 10% of his regular wage for each hour of work performed between 10 o’clock in the evening and 6 o’clock in the morning,” Senator Ramon Bong Revilla, Jr. said in a statement. He chairs the Senate Committee on Civil Service, Government Reorganization and Professional Regulation.
Funds for this additional pay should be appropriated from the national budget.
“Public sector employees also deserve the benefit we give to their private counterparts,” Revilla said, adding that night shifts tend to take a toll on an employee’s health, productivity and safety.
