DNSC POLICIES ON WORKING HOURS AND FLEXIBLE WORK ARRANGEMENTS

Limitations on Overtime Services and Overtime Pay

a. Only employees who arrive on or before the start of the workday shall be allowed to render overtime work with pay, provided that at least two hours of overtime services are rendered.

b. Time-in for overtime services during regular workdays shall be within 30 minutes after registering time-out (i.e., after 5:00 PM but not later than 5:30 PM).

c. Employees who incur absences, tardiness, and undertime for at least three (3) times a week shall not be authorized to render OT services on their rest day. This is to ensure that employees are not rendering OT services to finish their backlog due to their absences, tardiness, or overtime on regular days.

d. One-hour breaks shall be observed for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and one-hour breaks for rest every three hours of continuous overnight overtime service.

e. Overnight overtime service shall be rendered only when necessary. No employee shall be allowed to render overnight service for more than two (2) consecutive nights, for health reasons and to ensure employee productivity

f. Employee shall not use the overtime service period to offset undertime.

g. Only a minimum of four (4) hours and a maximum of twelve (12) hours of overtime services on a rest day or scheduled day off, holiday, or special non-working day shall be compensated through CTO for plantilla personnel and overtime pay for JO and COS.

h. The total overtime pay of a Job Order and COS employee in a year shall not exceed 50% of the total basic salary of the Employee for the year.