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Resigned employee can still get 13th month payOctober 11, 2014
9:08 pm
by Persida Acosta
Dear PAO,
I just resigned from office due to personal reasons. I want to
know if I
am entitled to 13th month pay despite being resigned
and worked for
only five months as a cashier.
Gener
Dear Gener,
Thirteenth (13th) month pay is the mandatory benefit given to a
rank
and file employee as an additional compensation from
his/her
employee. It is e quivalent to one twelfth (1/12) of the b
asic salary of an employee within a
calendar year (Presidential Decree 851 as amended by Memorandum
Order No. 28 Series
of 1986).
To determine whether one is a rank and file employee or not, the
Revised Guidelines on
the Implementation of the 13th- Month Pay Law provides:
“The Labor Code distinguishes a rank and file employee from a
managerial employee. Itprovides that a managerial employee is one
who is vested with powers of prerogatives to
lay down and execute management policies and/or to hire,
transfer, suspend, lay-off, recall
discharge, assign or discipline employees, or to effectively
recommend such managerial
actions. All employees not falling within this definition are
considered rank and file
employees.
The above distinction shall be used as guide for the purpose of
determining who are rank
and file employees entitled to the mandated 13th month pay.”
It is clear from the abovementioned law that you are qualified
to receive 13th month pay,
being a rank and file employee during your stint as a cashier
prior to your resignation.
Likewise, according to the said guidelines, a resigned employee
may receive his prorated
13th month pay, to wit:
“An employee who has resigned or whose services were terminated
at any time before the
time for payment of the 13th month pay is entitled to this
monetary benefit in proportion to
the length of time he worked during the year, reckoned from the
time he started working
during the calendar year up to the time of his resignation or
termination from the service.
Thus, if he worked only from January up to September his
proportionate 13th month pay
should be equivalent of 1/12 his total basic salary he earned
during that period.
The payment of the 13th month pay may be demanded by the
employee upon the
cessation of employer-employee relationship. This is consistent
with the principle of equity
that as the employer can require the employee to clear himself
of all liabilities and property
accountability, so can the employee demand the payment of all
benefits due him upon the
termination of the relationship.”
Since according to you, you have served your employer for a
total of five months prior toyour resignation, you are entitled to
receive a prorated 13th month pay from your employer
which is equivalent to one twelfth of your total basic salary
for the five months that you were
employed.
Again, we find it necessary t o m ention that this opinion
is solely based on the facts you
have narrated and our appreciation of the same. The opinion may
vary when the facts are
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crystal mirafuentes says:
November 6, 2014 at 4:57 pm
When can i get my 13th month pay? I resigned last may this year.
IM
connected with the company for almost 10years. Please advice
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