Department of Labor and Employment(DOLE)

March 3, 2023 Dear Dominic Soldevilla, Thank you for your request dated Mar 03, 2023 05:10:20 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. You asked for 6 days of work in a week. With regard to your inquiry, allow us to provide excerpts from the Labor Code of the Philippines as renumbered: Article 83. Normal hours of work. – The normal hours of work of any employee shall not exceed eight hours a day Article 91 of the Labor Code is also amended to read as follows: “Art. 91. Right to a weekly rest day. – “(a) It shall be the duty of every employer, whether operating for profit or not, to provide each of the employees a rest period of not less than 24 consecutive hours after every six consecutive normal work days. Based on the foregoing, 8 hrs a day, 6 day work week arrangement is allowed by labor law. These are the customary work hours per work day in a week. However, as part of management prerogative, there are instances wherein the employer will only require its workers to report for five days, or work on Saturdays as half-day work. Help us to continuously improve our FOI Program Implementation by accomplishing the DOLE-FOI Request Feedback Form through this link: bit.ly/DOLE-FOIFeedbackForm Thank you. Respectfully, Mark Valeros FOI Receiving Officer