Welcome to another entry for the Practical Advice series. This is a series of tips and advice sharing what I know about outsourcing, particularly, outsourcing to the Philippines.
The 13th Month Pay is something you hear often when planning to hire from the Philippines. What is it, exactly?
13th Month Pay-month pay is a benefit paid to employees in the Philippines each year. In Philippine labor laws, full-time employees are entitled to receive an additional payment equivalent to one-twelfth of the employee’s basic salary for the relevant calendar year.
Yes, it’s a required benefit if you have a business in the Philippines. How about when you don’t have a business but you do have employees, are you still required to pay it?
That’s what I’m going to discuss in this video. I’m going to answer these questions:
- Should you pay the 13th Month Pay?
- When should you pay it?
- Who should receive it?
- How much is it?
- Can you not pay it at all?
This video should clear things out about the 13th Month Pay for you.
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Since 2005, John has taught hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs how to profitably delegate to VAs in the Philippines (and get their lives back in the process).
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John – Great video.
question …. further to paying the 13th month bonus in relation to when they were hired.
My Filipino VA started in June. essentially 1/2 the year. I paid 1/2 of a month’s salary for the 13th month bonus. I didn’t really know about this until just recently and only saw this video now.
would you pay the other half or let it be?
DH
Hi Derek,
Thank you for your comment.
If your worker started on June 2020, you can start from there. Since the calculation is (monthly basic salary x months rendered) / 12 months
Example: 12,000 x 6 months (Jun 2020 to Dec 2020) / 12 months = 6,000 [13th month]
Hope this helps
Looking for a homebased job
Hi Josefina,
Thank you for your comment. You can register as a jobseeker here so that you can apply for job posts that interests you -> http://www.onlinejobs.ph/register