Meetings, training Programs.
—Attendance at lectures, meetings, training programs, and other similar activities shall not be
counted as working time if all of the following conditions are met:
(a) attendance is outside of the employee’s regular working hours;(b) attendance is in fact voluntary; and(c) the employee does
not perform any productive work during such attendance.
SEC. 7. Meal and Rest Periods. — Every employer shall give his employees, regardless of sex, not less than one (1) hour time-
off for regular meals, exceptin the following cases when a meal period of not less than twenty (20) minutes may be given by the
employer provided that such shorter meal period is credited as compensable hours worked of the employee:
(a) Where the work is nonmanual work in nature or does not involve strenuous physical exertion;
(b) Where the establishment regularly operates not less than sixteen hours a day;
(c) In cases of actual or impending emergencies or there is urgent work to be performed on machineries, equipment or
installations to avoid serious loss which the employer would otherwise suffer; and
(d) Where the work is necessary to prevent serious loss of perishable goods.
Rest periods or coffee breaks running from five (5) to twenty (20) minutes shall be considered as compensable working time.
SEC. 8. Overtime Pay. — Any employee covered by this Rule who is permitted or required to work beyond eight (8) hours on
ordinary working days shall be paid an additional compensation for the overtime work in an amount equivalent to his regular
wage plus at least twenty-five percent (25%) thereof.
SEC. 9. Premium and overtime pay for holiday and rest day work. — (a) Except employees referred to under Section 2 of this
Rule, an employee who is permitted or suffered to work on special holidays or on his designated rest days not falling on regular
holidays, shall be paid with an additional compensation as premium pay of not less than thirty percent (30%) of his regular wage.
For work performed in excess of eight (8) hours on special holidays and rest days not falling on regular holidays, an employee
shall be paid an additional compensation for the overtime work equivalent to his rate for the first eight hours on a special holiday
or rest day plus at least thirty percent (30%) thereof.
(b) Employees of public utility enterprises as well as those employed in nonprofit institutions and organizations shall be entitled
to the premium andovertime pay provided herein, unless they are specifically excluded from thecoverage of this Rule as provided
in Section 2 hereof.
(c) The payment of additional compensation for work performed on regular holidays shall be governed by Rule IV, Book III, of
these Rules.
SEC. 10. Compulsory overtime work. — In any of the following cases, an employer may require any of his employees to work
beyond eight (8) hours a day, provided that the employee required to render overtime work is paid the additional compensation
required by these regulations:
(a) When the country is at war or when any other national or local emergency has been declared by the National Assembly or the
Chief Executive;
(b) When overtime work is necessary to prevent loss of life or property, or in case of imminent danger to public safety due to
actual or impending emergency in the locality caused by serious accident, fire, floods, typhoons, earthquake, epidemic or other
disaster or calamities;
(c) When there is urgent work to be performed on machines, installations, or equipment, or in order to avoid serious loss or
damage to the employer or some other causes of similar nature;
(d) When the work is necessary to prevent loss or damage to perishable goods;
(e) When the completion or continuation of work started before the 8th hour is necessary to prevent serious obstruction
