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Rest day premium
Rest day premium is extra pay when the employee works on their scheduled weekly rest day, generally 130% for the first eight hours on an ordinary rest day, with higher stacks if the rest day is also a holiday.
How it works
Every employee is entitled to a rest day. Name it in the contract. Overnight PH seats often use Sunday local or a weekday to match U.S. weekends. If you then pull them in, pay the premium. You cannot offset rest-day work with random time off and call it even without a written, lawful offset arrangement. 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: rest day Sunday. Emergency six-hour Sunday shift on an ordinary Sunday: 130% of hourly × 6, plus NSD on hours past 10 p.m.
How it differs
Holiday premium is about proclaimed days. Overtime is extra hours on a workday. Mandated rest day is the right to have a rest day at all.
Common errors
Rotating rest days silently so there is never a premium. ‘We’re a startup’ as a waiver.