Know your rights

Know what you are owed

Two quick tools, and the facts behind them. Every number shows its source.

Can you live on ₱96 a day?

The official poverty line is ₱35,121 a year per person, about ₱96.22 a day. Earn just above it and you are counted as “not poor”. Split it across one day and see.

People in your household

Your household’s poverty-line budget for one day: ₱481.11
For a month: ₱14,634

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, 2025 official poverty statistics (poverty threshold ₱35,121 per person per year; ₱14,634 a month for a family of five), reported 21 August 2026, as cited in DJP’s statement of October 2026.

Split one person’s ₱96.22 across a day

₱96.22

Three meals₱
Fare to work and back₱
Rent (share for today)₱
Electricity and water₱
School and children₱
Medicine and health₱
Phone and load₱

Left for everything else₱96.22

Can a day be lived on this?

Read our statement on ₱96 a day →

Am I paid for this day?

For workers in the private sector. Pick the kind of day and whether you worked; add your daily wage to see the amount.

What kind of day is it?

Did you work?

Your daily wage (₱)

What the law says

100%

You are paid 100% of your daily wage even without working (if you were present or on paid leave on the workday before the holiday).

Some employers are exempt from holiday pay, for example retail and service businesses with fewer than ten workers. Not sure? Ask us.

Ask DJP about your case

Source: Labor Code of the Philippines, Art. 93–94; DOLE Handbook on Workers’ Statutory Monetary Benefits; DOLE Labor Advisory No. 16, Series of 2026 (ASEAN Summit days), as cited in DJP’s statement of November 2026.

Your rights at work, in short

You can organize

Workers have the right to form and join unions and to bargain collectively. You cannot be fired for it.

Regular work, regular job

If your work is necessary and desirable to the business, the law considers you a regular employee, whatever your contract says.

Safe workplaces

Your employer must keep the workplace safe and healthy, and you can refuse work that puts you in imminent danger.

Ask before you sign

Quitclaims and end-of-contract papers can cost you what you are owed. Talk to us first.

General information, not legal advice. For your own case, talk to us.

Source: 1987 Constitution, Art. XIII Sec. 3; Labor Code of the Philippines, Art. 295 (regular employment); Republic Act No. 11058 (Occupational Safety and Health Standards Act), Sec. 5.