3. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the report, learners are expected to:
1. Determine the employees’ benefits and
cessation of service.
2. Understand the nature of giving benefits
and termination of service to employees.
3. Differentiate the policies of private and
public sectors in giving benefits to
employees.
4. Share one’s insight on how benefits can
be accumulated by an employee.
4.
5. Employees’ Benefits: Book 3 Labor Code of The Philippines
Six Basic Employee Benefits
SSS or GSIS Contributions
Contribution to National Health
Insurance Program
Contribution to Home Development
and Mutual Fund
The 13th Month Pay
Service Incentive Leave
Meal and Rest Periods
6. Employees’ Additional Benefits
Private Sectarian Private Non-Sectarian Public School
School School
• Holiday/Premium Pay • Holiday/Premium Pay • Holiday/Premium Pay
• Maternity Benefit • Maternity Leave Benefit • Maternity Leave
• Paternity Leave • Paternity Leave • Paternity Leave
• Retirement Benefit • Retirement Benefits • Retirement Benefits
• Separation Pay
• Uniform Allowance • Free Sets of Uniform • Clothing Allowance
• Request for • Monthly Allowance for Allowance
Instructional Materials teaching materials and • Chalk Allowance
structuring of classrooms
• Study Leave for
Educational Purposes • Study Leave
• Educational Benefits
(MA/Ph. D, Child/Grantee
Education)
• Free Tuition Fees for
Children of Married
Employee
• Funeral/Death Benefit • Death Aid
7. Employees’ Additional Benefits
Private Sectarian Private Non-Sectarian Public School
School School
• Christmas/Love Gift •Official Chaperons to • City Share/Local/
Contest National Bonus
• Summer Tutorial • Mid-Year and Year End
• Regular School Days Bonus
Tutorial
• Salary Loan • Hardship/Localization
• Sickness Benefits Allowance
• Disability Benefit
• Sabbatical Leave
• Bereavement Leave
• Wedding Leave
• Service Awards
• No Absence and No
Tardy Insentive
• Subsidy to Training • Free attendance to • Seminars for Selected
and Conferences Training and Conferences Teachers
• Step by Step • Ladderized Promotion
Promotion
8.
9. Termination of Employment : Book Six Labor Code of the Philippines
Cessation of Service
Termination by employer
Closure of establishment and
reduction of personnel
Disease as ground for termination
Termination by employee
Retirement
10. Termination of Employment : Book Six Labor Code of the Philippines
Art. 282. Termination by employer.
An employer may terminate an employment for
any of the following causes:
a. Serious misconduct or willful disobedience
d. the employee a crime or orders of his
by Commission of of the lawfuloffense by the
employee against the personin connection with
employer or representative of his employer or
any immediate member of his family or his duly
his work;
authorized representatives; and
b. Gross and habitual neglect by the employee
of Other causes analogous to the foregoing.
e. his duties;
c. Fraud or willful breach by the employee of
the trust reposed in him by his employer or
duly authorized representative;
11. Termination of Employment : Book Six Labor Code of the Philippines
Art. 283. Closure of establishment and
reduction of personnel.
In case of termination due to the installation of
The employer may also terminate the
labor-saving devices or redundancy, the worker
employment of shall be entitled to due to the
affected thereby any employee a separation
installation to at least his one (1) month pay or
pay equivalent of labor-saving devices,
redundancy, retrenchment tofor every year of
to at least one (1) month pay prevent losses
or the closing or cessation of operation of the
service, whichever is higher. In case of
retrenchment to or undertaking
establishment prevent losses and unless the
in cases of
closures
closing is or the purpose of operations of
for cessation of circumventing
establishment or undertaking not by serving a
the provisions of this Title, due to serious
business losses the workers and the Ministry
written notice on or financial reverses, the
separation pay shall be equivalent to one (1) month
of Labor and Employment at least one (1)
pay or at least one-half (1/2) month pay for every
month before the intended date thereof.
year of service, whichever is higher. A fraction of
at least six (6) months shall be considered one (1)
whole year.
12. Termination of Employment : Book Six Labor Code of the Philippines
Art. 284. Disease as ground for termination.
An employer may terminate the services of
an employee who has been found to be
suffering from any disease and whose
continued employment is prohibited by
law or is prejudicial to his health as well
as to the health of his co-employees:
Provided, That he is paid separation pay
equivalent to at least one (1) month salary
or to one-half (1/2) month salary for every
year of service, whichever is greater, a
fraction of at least six (6) months being
considered as one (1) whole year.
13. Termination of Employment : Book Six Labor Code of the Philippines
Art. 285. Termination by employee.
b. An employee may put an end to the relationship
without serving any notice on the employer for any
a. An employee may terminate without just
of the following just causes:
cause the employee-employer relationship
by serving a writtenby the on the employer
1. Serious insult notice employer or his
representative on the honor and person of the
atemployee;
least one (1) month in advance. The
employer upon whom no such notice was
served may and unbearable treatment accorded
2. Inhuman
hold the employee liable for
the employee by the employer or his
damages.
representative;
3. Commission of a crime or offense by the
employer or his representative against the person
of the employee or any of the immediate members
of his family; and
4. Other causes analogous to any of the foregoing.
14. Termination of Employment : Book Six Labor Code of the Philippines
Art. 286. When employment not deemed
terminated.
The bona-fide suspension of the operation of a
business or undertaking for a period not
exceeding six (6) months, or the fulfillment by
the employee of a military or civic duty shall
not terminate employment. In all such cases,
the employer shall reinstate the employee to
his former position without loss of seniority
rights if he indicates his desire to resume his
work not later than one (1) month from the
resumption of operations of his employer or
from his relief from the military or civic duty.
15. Retirement from the Service: Book Six Labor Code of the Philippines
Art. 287. Retirement.
Any employee may be retired upon reaching
the retirement age established in the collective
bargaining agreement or other applicable
employment contract.
In case of retirement, the employee shall be
entitled to receive such retirement benefits as
he may have earned under existing laws and
any collective bargaining agreement and other
agreements: Provided, however, That an
employee’s retirement benefits under any
collective bargaining and other agreements
shall not be less than those provided therein.