Department of Labor and Employment(DOLE)

December 12, 2022 Dear Jay-Ryan Trinidad, Thank you for your request dated Dec 12, 2022 02:32:56 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. You requested for the following information: 1. Data on the number of employers that grant bereavement leaves to their employees; 2. Data on the common death-related benefits given by employers to employees; 3. Rules on bereavement benefits/leaves 4. Bereavement programs of employers The following information that you are requesting are NOT mandatory in nature and is part of good company practice. Hence, the DOLE does NOT include monitoring of information on these in its information activities. Currently, there is no enabling law that provides for bereavement leave in the Philippines. What the labor code provides is only the 5 days Service Incentive Leave. Bereavement leaves as well as Annual Vacation, Sick Leave and other similar leaves are part of company's good practice or collective bargaining agreement. There are Bills filed in the Senate and HOR sponsoring the grant of 10 day bereavement leave for the private sector and the DOLE supports the said Bills Until the proposed law is enacted into law, the grant of bereavement leave for private sector employees shall remain as voluntary. Thank you. Respectfully, Mark Valeros FOI Receiving Officer