PROVIDING FOR MINIMUM COMPENSATION FOR HOUSEHOLD HELPERS

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 99
• Sections: 6

Preamble

I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by

virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief of

the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081,

dated September 21, 1972, and General Order No. 1, dated September 22, 1972, do

hereby decree:

Section 1

SECTION 1. Thirty days after the Secretary of Labor has

promulgated the implementing rules and regulations, the minimum compensation for

household and domestic helpers shall be at the rate of not less than:

Sixty pesos a month for house helpers in Manila, Quezon City, Pasay City and

Caloocan City, and the municipalities of Makati, San Juan, Mandaluyong,

Muntinlupa, Navotas, Malabon, Parañaque, Las Piñas, Pasig and Marikina, in the

Province of Rizal.

Forty-five pesos a month for house helpers in the other chartered cities and

first class municipalities.

Thirty pesos a month for house helpers in other municipalities.

Section 2

SEC. 2. Any house helper who before the promulgation of this

Decree is already receiving a compensation higher than that prescribed herein,

shall not suffer any dimunition of compensation.

Section 3

SEC. 3. The minimum compensation provided in this

Decree shall be in addition to the house helper's lodging, food and medical

attendance.

Section 4

SEC. 4. The Secretary of Labor shall promulgate rules and

regulations for the effective implementation of this Act not later than 30 days

from the promulgation of this Decree.

Section 5

SEC. 5. Any person who shall violate this Act shall, upon

conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than two hundred pesos and not more

than one thousand pesos, or upon second conviction, to imprisonment of not less

than fifteen days to not more than three months, in the discretion of the

court.

Done in the City of Manila, this 15th day of January, in the year of Our

Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President

Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR

Executive Secretary