1. Service Incentive Leave

C. Leaves

• Service Incentive Leaves – Labor Code, art. 95; Omnibus Rules Implementing the Labor Code, Book III, Rule V, secs. 1-6
• Leaves under Special Laws
• Expanded Maternity Leave – R.A. No. 11210
• Paternity Leave – R.A. No. 8187; separate allocation of up to seven days of maternity leave to the child’s father under R.A. No. 11210, Sec. 6, over and above leave under R.A. No. 8187
• Solo Parent Leave – R.A. No. 8972, as amended by R.A. No. 11861
• Gynecological Leave – R.A. No. 9710
• Battered Woman Leave – R.A. No. 9262

Right To Service Incentive Leave Definition:

Every employee who has rendered at least 1 year of service shall be entitled to a yearly service incentive leave of 5 days with pay. (Labor Code, Art. 95)

Meaning of “at least 1 year of service”

Service for not less than 12 months, whether continuous or broken reckoned from the date the employee is initially engaged.