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separation

pay
Entitlement and Availment

Separation pay is given to


employees in instances
covered by Articles 298 and
299 of the Labor Code.

An employee's entitlement to
separation pay depends on
the reason or ground for the
termination of his or her
services.

An employee who voluntarily resigned is


not entitled to separation pay, unless it is a
company practice or provided in the CBA.
Source: 2020 Handbook on Worker's Statutory Monetary
Benefits
One-Half (1/2) Month Pay per Year of Service
An employee is entitled to receive a separation pay equivalent to 1/2 month pay for
every year of service, a fraction of at least 6 months is considered as 1 year, if his or
her separation from service is due to any of the following authorized causes:

1. Retrenchment to prevent losses;


2. Closure or cessation of operation of an
establishment not due to serious losses or
financial reverses;
3. When the employee is suffering from a
disease not curable within a period of 6
months and his/her continued employment
is prejudicial to his/her health or to the
In no case will an health of his/her co-employees; and
employee get less than
1 month separation 4. Lack of service assignment of security
pay if the separation guards for a continuous period of 6
is due to the above months*
stated causes.
*Department Order No. 150, series of 2016, Revised Guidelines Governing the Employment and
Working Conditions of Security Guards and Other Private Security Personnel in the Private Security
Industry.

One (1) Month Pay per Year of Service


An employee is entitled to receive a separation pay equivalent to his/her 1 month pay for
every year of service, a fraction of at least 6 months is considered as 1 year, if his/her
separation from service is due to any of the following:

1. Installation by employer of labor-saving devices; B A S I S O F

2. Redundancy, as when the position of the employee S E P A R A T I O N

has been found to be excessive or unnecessary in the


P A Y
operation of the enterprise; and
3. Impossible reinstatement of the employee to his/her Latest Salary
former position or to a substantially equivalent
position for reasons not attributable to the fault of Rate of the
the employer, as when the reinstatement order
cannot be implemented due to closure, cessation of Employee
operations, the position no longer exists, or there is
strained relations between the employer and
employee.
4. Lack of service assignment of security guards by
reason of age.*
*Department Order No. 150, series of 2016, Revised Guidelines Governing the Employment and Working Conditions
of Security Guards and Other Private Security Personnel in the Private Security Industry.

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