With the Philippines having more than 7,000 islands it is no wonder that the celebrated holidays are also plenty and knowing these important dates and including them in your payroll system would enable you to provide accurate calculations with the production of payroll.

Save the important dates and here are the holidays celebrated in the Philippines:

Date The Philippines Public Holiday Schedule January 1st New Year’s Day January – February (dependent on lunar calendar) Chinese New Year April 9th The Day of Valor Thursday before Easter Sunday Maundy Thursday Friday before Easter Sunday Good Friday Saturday before Easter Sunday Black Saturday May 1st Labor Day June 12th Independence Day June (dependent on lunar calendar) Eid-Ul-Fitr August 21st Nino Aquino Day August 28th National Heroes Day August – September (dependent on lunar calendar) Eid Al-Adha November 1st All Saints’ Day November 30th Bonifacio Day December 25th Christmas Day December 30th Rizal Day December 31st New Year’s Eve

In total, there are 17 paid national and public holidays. Any work rendered on a holiday must automatically be paid double the normal wage.

Aside from that employees are also entitled to significant number of leave with pay. Here’s a statement by Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, Labor and Employment Secretary which requires companies to do so,

”Service Incentive Leave Pay is an employee benefit that enables them to take or avail of leave with pay for five days provided the worker has rendered service for at least one year.”

With that being said, employees are compensated with five (5) days of leaves with pay after rendering a year of service for the company.

To further acknowledge other paid leaves, here the types of leaves imposed by the companies but is not required by the labor laws.

Types of Leaves

Sick Leaves

As the name implies, this leave is concern with the health status of an employee, if in case an employee fell ill he/she could apply for a sick leave. And when the leaves of absences exceeded the three (3) day mark, the employee’s filed sick leave should be accompanied with a medical certificate.

An employee has about 15 days for their sick days, but the latter still depends on the company’s allotted sick days.

Vacation Leaves

Vacation leaves are what a company can use to compensate an employee’s hard work. As to practice a healthy work-life balance. Each employee all have lives to live and given them, enough time for their loved ones show how much a company values their employees. However, such leaves are still subject to approval from their superiors.

Emergency Leaves

This includes unforeseen events such as family members who are ill and needs to be taken cared of.

And here are other paid leaves mandated under the labor law:

A payroll system should acknowledge and include the following leaves as this is stipulated by the law and failure to do so could lead unwanted circumstances which could be avoidable when a reliable payroll software system in the Philippines is integrated into the business.