Labor Law
1. The goal of ______ is to strike the proper
balance between the protection of workers’
rights versus the exercise of management
prerogatives by the employer in accordance with
law and to achieve industrial peace.
Ans. Labor Relations
2. Every employee shall be paid a night shift
differential of not less than ______ of his regular
wage for each hour of work performed between
ten o’clock in the evening and six o’clock in the
morning.
Ans. 10%
3. The employer may require an employee to work
on any holiday but such employee shall be paid
a compensation equivalent to his regular rate.
Ans. Twice
4. _______ is the mandated administrator of the
Medicare program (now known as NHIP) under
the National Health Insurance Act. Of 2013
(Republic Act 7875 as amended by RA 9241 and
10606)
Ans. The Philippine Health Insurance
Corporation or (Phil health)
5. This means any person association engaged in
the recruitment and placement of workers,
locally or overseas, without charging, directly or
indirectly, any fee from the workers or
employers.
Ans: PRIVATE RECRUITMENT AGENCY
6. ______ shall mean leave benefits granted to a
solo parent to enable him/her to perform parental
duties and responsibilities where physical
presence is required.
Ans. Parental Leave
7. A type of employment that shall not exceed six
(6) months from the date the employee started
working, unless it covered by an apprenticeship
agreement stipulating a longer period.
Ans. Probationary Employment
8. The normal hours of work of any employee shall
not exceed _____ hours a day.
Ans. 8
9. It is a process where the parties agree fix and
administer terms and conditions of employment
which must not be below minimum standards
fixed by law and set a mechanism for resolving
their grievances.
Ans. Collective Bargaining
10. Every employee who has rendered at least one
year of service shall be entitled to a yearly
service incentive leave of _____ days with pay.
Ans. 5
11. Every worker shall be paid his regular daily
wage during regular holidays, except in retail
and service establishments regularly employing
less than ____ workers;
Ans. 10
12. Employees shall be retired upon reaching the
age of ____ years or more but not beyond ____
years old and have served the establishment for
at least ____ years.
Ans. 60 years – 65 years – 5 years
13. To determine the existence of an employer-
employee relationship the four-fold test is
usually applied EXCEPT for _____.
Ans. The Hiring Of Employee
FOUR-FOLD TEST
1. The selection and engagement of the
employee
2. The payment of wages
3. The power of dismissal
4. The power to control the employee’s
conduct or the control test.
14. Any individual, partnership, corporation or
entity licensed by the Department of Labor and
Employment (DOLE) to engage in the
recruitment and placement or workers for local
employment.
Ans. Private Employment Agency
15. Pertains to the lowest amount of wage that an
employer should pay an employee.
Ans. Minimum Wage
16. The paternity leave shall be for _____ days, with
full pay, consisting of basic salary and
mandatory allowances fixed by the regional
Wage Board, if any, provided that his pay shall
not be less than the mandated minimum wage.
Ans. Seven (7) calendar days.
17. The minimum ______ pay shall be equivalent to
one-half (1/2) month salary for every year of
service, a fraction of at least six (6) months
being considered as one (1) whole year.
Ans. Retirement Pay
18. _____ Pay refers to the additional compensation
for work performed beyond eight (8) hours a
day.
Ans. Overtime
19. It shall be the duty of every employer, whether
operating for profit or not, to provide each of his
employees a rest period of not less than ______
after every six (6) consecutive normal days.
Ans. 24 Consecutive Hours
20. If the employee has rendered service for at least
one (1) year in the same company, whether the
______ employment is continuous or not, they
shall be considered a regular employee with
respect to the activity they are employed and
will continue rendering service while such
activity exists.
Ans. Temporary/Casual Employment
21. The _____ is usually created by a contract,
either oral or written.
Ans. Employer-Employee Relationship
22. ______ refers to any act or a series of acts
committed by any person against a woman who
is his wife, former wife, or against a woman
with whom the person has or had a sexual or
dating relationship, or with whom he has a
common child, or against her child whether
legitimate or illegitimate, within or without the
family abode, which will result in or is likely to
result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or
suffering, or economic abuse including threats of
such acts, battery, assault, coercion, harassment
or arbitrary, deprivation of liberty.
Ans. RA 9262 or the Victims of Violence
against women and their children.
23. _____ refers to the Philippine laws that provide
the minimum requirements regarding work
conditions, work hours, wages, benefits and
other employment conditions that are being
implemented by management.
Ans. Labor Standards
24. The maternity leave benefit shall be for _____
days with full pay, and additional fifteen (15)
days with full pay in case the female employee
qualifies as a solo parent under RA 8972, or the
“Solo Parents’ Welfare Act of 2000”.
Ans. 105
25. All employers are required to pay their rank and
file employees _____ regardless of the nature of
their employment and irrespective of the
methods by which their wages are paid,
provided they worked for at least one (1) month
during the calendar year. This pay should be
given to the employees not later than December
24 of every year.
Ans. Thirteenth-month pay
26. The _______ is a government program designed
to provide a compensation package to public and
private sector employees or their dependents in
the event of work-related sickness, injury,
disability or death.
Ans. PD 626 – Employees’ Compensation
Program (ECP)
27. Work may be performed beyond eight (8) hours
a day provided that the employees is paid for the
overtime work, an additional compensation
equivalent to his regular wage plus at least
______ thereof.
Ans. 25%
28. _____ Pay refers to the payment of the regular
daily wage for any unworked regular holiday.
Ans. Holiday
29. Any female employees regardless of age and
civil status shall be entitled to this special leave
benefit.
Ans. RA 9710 Special leave for women
30. The ______ provides a package benefits in the
event of death, disability, sickness, maternity,
old age, and unemployment.
Ans. Social Security Program
 non-work days, such as rest days and special
days.
31. Work performed beyond eight hours on a
Ans. Premium
holiday or rest day shall be paid an additional
compensation equivalent to the rate of the first
eight hours on a holiday or rest day plus at least
36. ______ is a mutual provident savings system for
_____ thereof.
private and government employees and other
Ans. 30%
earning groups, supported by matching
mandatory contributions of their respective
employers with housing as primary investment.
32. A type of employment applies “where the work
Ans. The Home Development Mutual Fund or
or service performed is _____ in nature and the
(PAG-IBIG)
employment is for the duration of the season.
Ans. Seasonal Employment

37. A person is deemed to be engaged in ______

when the person supplying workers to an
33. Any female employee is entitled to _____ of
employer does not have substantial capital or
two (2) months with full pay based on her gross
investment in the form of tools, equipment,
monthly compensation.
machineries, work premises, among the others;
Ans. Special Leave Benefit
and the workers recruited and placed by such
person are performing activities which are

34. An employee’s entitlement to _____ pay directly related to the principal business of such

depends on the reason or ground for the employer.

termination of his or her services. An employee Ans. Labor-only Contracting

may be terminated for just cause (i.e., gross and

habitual neglect of duty, fraud, or commission of
38. The primary standard that determines ______
a crime), and other similar causes as enumerated
employment is the reasonable connection
under Article 297 (formerly Article 282) of the
between the particular activity performed by the
Labor Code.
employee and the usual business or trade of the
Ans. Separation Pay
employer; the emphasis is on the necessity or
desirability of the employee’s activity.
Ans. Regular Employment

35. _____ Pay refers to the additional compensation 39. ______ refers to the additional compensation of

for work performed within eight (8) hours on ten percent (10%) of an employee’s regular
 wage for each hour of work performed between
10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Ans. Night Shift Differential

40. It is an arrangement whereby a principal

outsource a job, work or service to the contractor
who performs these through its deployed
personnel.
Ans. Job Contracting