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Regular holiday
Regular holiday is a day the Code treats as a regular holiday: if the worker does not work they are still paid a day’s wage when eligible, and if they work they earn holiday premium pay on top of that structure.
How it works
Proclamation 1006 lists 2026 regular holidays including New Year, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Araw ng Kagitingan, Labor Day, Independence Day, National Heroes Day, Bonifacio Day, Christmas, and Rizal Day. Eid dates come on later proclamations. Monthly-paid staff are often already paid for the unworked regular holiday inside the monthly basic. Daily-paid staff need the explicit day’s pay. Work on the day triggers the 200% first-eight-hours logic for a regular holiday, and night differential still stacks inside 10 p.m.-6 a.m. 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: Christmas 2026 is Friday 25 December, a regular holiday. An unworked eligible day is paid. A worked eight-hour day is 200% of daily wage before NSD on night hours.
How it differs
Special non-working days use a different premium (typically 130% if worked, and ‘no work, no pay’ unless policy says otherwise). Special working days are treated like ordinary days for pay.
Common errors
Treating every long weekend as a regular holiday. Forgetting Eid when the later proclamation drops.