No deferment, no exemptions to 13th month pay

It is mandatory for all employers and companies to give 13th month pay to all its rank-and-file employees on or before December 24 of every year. 

Presidential Decree 851, the Thirteenth Month  Pay Law, does not allow any exemptions to the payment. It has no provisions allowing deferment, postponement or delaying the payment. 

The law requires principal business owners to give its regular employees 13th month pay equivalent to one month salary. These includes contractual and end-of-contract five months workers. Manpower agencies and service providers are required by law to also give 13th month pay.

Resigned and even those who worked for less than a year are entitled to this.

The 13th month pay is not a Christmas bonus! Christmas bonus is cash or kind and voluntary on the part of the employer.

Samantalang ang 13th month pay ay maaaring ibigay ng cash o kahit instalment.

For companies who are unable to pay employees on December 24, you may report them to Department of Labor and Employment Hotline 1349.