The normal hours of work of any employee shall not exceed eight (8) hours a day.
Health personnel in cities and municipalities with a population of at least one million (1,000,000) or in hospitals and clinics with a bed capacity of at least one hundred (100) shall hold regular office hours for eight (8) hours a day, for five (5) days a week, exclusive of time for meals, except where the exigencies of the service require that such personnel work for six
(6) days or forty-eight (48) hours, in which case, they shall be entitled to an additional compensation of at least thirty percent (30%) of their regular wage for work on the sixth day. For purposes of this Article, "health personnel" shall include resident physicians, nurses, nutritionists, dieticians, pharmacists, social workers, laboratory technicians, paramedical technicians, psychologists, midwives, attendants and all other hospital or clinic personnel.
Editor’s notes from DOLE (1)
The second paragraph of Article 83 does not apply to health workers in government service. They are excluded from the coverage of Arts. 82 through 96 and their employment benefits are defined in R.A. No. 7305 (1992), Magna Carta of Public Health Workers. Likewise, under Sec. 15, Rule X, Book III of the Omnibus Rules Implementing the Labor Code, the forty-hour workweek will not apply if there is a training agreement between a resident physician and the hospital, and the training program is duly accredited or approved by appropriate government agency. In such case, there is no employer-employee relation on account of the approved training program.
Text and numbering follow the Department of Labor and Employment's 2022 edition of Presidential Decree No. 442, as amended and renumbered under DOLE Department Advisory No. 01, series of 2015. Former article numbers are shown in brackets. Notes are DOLE's editorial notes. Amendments after that edition are not included. For information and research only, and not legal advice. For certified copies, refer to the Official Gazette or the issuing agency.