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Holy Week holiday pay can be deferred until COVID-19 crisis ends: labor dept

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/reuters/04/08/20200330-medical-worker-sleep.jpg"/><figcaption>A medical worker wearing a protective mask sleeps inside a free shuttle service for healthcare workers following the suspension of mass transportation in Metro Manila to contain the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Manila, March 30, 2020. <em>Eloisa Lopez, Reuters</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - Employers can defer the payment of holiday pay this Holy Week until the COVID-19 crisis abates, the labor department said Wednesday nearly a month into the lockdown of half the country&#x27;s population to beat the pandemic. </p><p>Additional pay for April 9 to 11 can be postponed &quot;until such time that the present emergency situation has been abated and the normal operations of the establishment is in place,&quot; Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello said in an advisory that the national wages commission posted on Facebook. </p><p>Businesses that suspended operations during the Luzon quarantine &quot;are exempted from the payment of holiday pay,&quot; he added. </p><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://web.facebook.com/dole.nwpc/posts/3200675209956365" data-width="auto"> </div><p>Workers were supposed to get <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/01/17/20/triple-pay-awaits-workers-on-april-9-wage-commission">300 percent of their daily rate</a> on April 9 because it will fall on 2 holidays, Maundy Thursday and Day of Valor or Araw ng Kagitingan, the wages commission earlier said. </p><p>The quarantine of 50 million people in Luzon until April 30 exempts health workers, emergency frontliners and providers of basic services and goods. </p>

<p>Employers can defer the payment of holiday pay this Holy Week until the COVID-19 crisis abates, the labor department said nearly a month into the lockdown of half of the country's population to beat the pandemic. </p>

Employers can defer the payment of holiday pay this Holy Week until the COVID-19 crisis abates, the labor department said nearly a month into the lockdown of half of the country's population to beat the pandemic.