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Graveyard shift
Graveyard shift is a schedule whose working core sits through the Philippine late night, usually landing inside Article 86’s 10 p.m.-6 a.m. window for most of the shift.
How it works
This is Clock B in overnight coverage. Pay NSD on the hours that fall in the window. Expect a thinner candidate pool, health load, and family friction. Do not hire a dayside peso rate and then rotate them onto graveyard because a U.S. VP likes 6 p.m. Pacific standups. For a U.S. company hiring one Filipino teammate, write this into the brief, the employment contract, and the peso payroll file before the start date. Slack habits do not override the Labor Code, BIR, or NPC. If the local employer of record holds the paper, they run the statutory step; you still owe a clean operating definition so the seat does not fail in week three. Put a number on the example when you budget loaded cost, because a nameless allowance always returns as a December surprise or a missed SLA.
Example: 6 p.m.-2 a.m. PHT: NSD on 10 p.m.-2 a.m. (four hours), not on the whole eight unless the whole eight is inside the window.
How it differs
Overnight coverage can also be dayside PH serving a U.S. night queue. Night-shift health load is the body cost. Locked hours keep the shift from creeping to twelve.
Common errors
Calling any evening hour graveyard. Skipping NSD because ‘they chose this.’
In practice
Treat Graveyard shift as a week-one operating object. Write the hours and the next Philippine holiday on the same page as the job brief. If this word would change pay or coverage that week, lock it before the interview. Write an owner - founder, local employer, or worker - and a date you will look at it again: first cutoff, first holiday, or first miss. If nobody can show a contract clause, a payslip line, a calendar block, or a checklist box, you do not have graveyard shift yet. You have a conversation. Convert the conversation before the person starts, while changing the deal still costs a paragraph rather than a resignation. Re-read the worked example above against the actual hire in front of you. If the numbers in that example cannot be swapped for this seat’s pesos, hours, and start date, the brief is still unfinished.