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affecting their rights and 
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benefits as may be provided by law.” 
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EXPLANATORY NOTE 
In accordance with the aforequoted constitutional mandate, this bill seeks to afford 
further protection to labor by providing employees in the private sector demands of workplaces 
with their personal needs and those of their families by allowing employers to ,offer 
compensatory time  off,^ which emplpyees may voluntarily elect to receive, and to establish bi- 
weekly work programs: and flexible credit hour programs, in which employees may voluntarily 
participate. 
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Introduced by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
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SECTION 1. Short Title. This Act shall be known as ”Family Friendly Workplace Act.” 
SECTION 2. D clavation of Policy. It is the policy of the State to afford full protection 
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to labor and provide them with humane working conditions. 
SECTION 3. deneral Rule - (1) COMPENSATORY TIME OFF - An employee may 
receive, in leiu of monetary overtime compensation, compensatory time off at a rate not less than 
one and on-half (1 %) hours for each hour of employment for which monetary compensation is 
required. 
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(2) DEFINITION - For purposes of this Act, the term “employee” does not 
include an employee of a public agency. 
SECTION 4. Conditions. - An employer may provide compensatory time off to 
employees under Section 3 only pursuant to the following: 
(1) Such time may be provided only in accordance with- 
(A) applicable provisions of the employee recognized under the Labor Code; 


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(B) i the case of employees who are not represented by a labor organization 
recognized as provided in the Labor Code, an agreement or understanding arrived at between the 
employer and employ e before the performance of the work involved if such agreement or 
understanding was entered into knowingly and voluntarily by such employee and was not a 
condition of employment; : 
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(C) if the employee has not accrued compensatory time off in excess o f  the 
limit applicable to the employee prescribed by Sector 5. 
SECTION 5. Hour Limit. - (1) MAXIMUM HOURS - An employee may accrue not 
more than two hundred,forty (240) hours of compensatory time off. 
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(2) COMPENSATION DATE - Not later than January 3 1 of each calendar year, 
the employee’s employer shall provide monetary compensation for any unused compensatory 
time off accrued during the preceding calendar year that was not used prior to December 3 1 of 
the preceding calendar  year. An employer may designate and communicate to the employees of 
the employer a twelve (12) month period other than the calendar year, in which case such 
compensation shall be provided not later than thirty-one (3 1) days after the end of such 12-month 
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(3) EXCESS OF EIGHTY (80) HOURS - The employer may provide monetary 
compensation for an employee’s unused compensatory time off in excess of eighty (80) hours at 
any time after giving the employee at least thirty (30) days notice. 
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SECTION 5. deparability Clause. - If any provision, or part hereof, is held invalid or 
unconstitutional, the remainder of the law or the provision not otherwise affected shall remain 
valid and subsisting. 
SECTION 6. Repealing Clause. - Any law, presidential decree or issuance, executive 
order, letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation contrary to, or inconsistent 
with, the provision of this Act is hereby repealed, modified, or amended accordingly. 


SECTION 7. Ehectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after. its 
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publication in at least t o (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved. 
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