Statute
Handbook on Workers' Statutory Monetary Benefits (2024)
121 provisions · showing PART 11 (5) · source
Leave For Victims Of Violence Against Women And Their Children (Vawc): Definition
Leave for victims of violence against women and their children refers to the paid leave granted to a female employee who is a victim of violence against women and their children allowing her to attend to medical and legal concerns at any time during the application of any protection order, investigation, prosecution and/or trial of the criminal case.
Leave For Victims Of Violence Against Women And Their Children (Vawc): Coverage · cited in the answer
This benefit applies to all female employees who are victims of VAWC. VAWC, as used in Republic Act No. 9262, “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 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.”
Leave For Victims Of Violence Against Women And Their Children (Vawc): Duration
In addition to other paid leaves under existing labor laws, company policies, and/or collective bargaining agreements, the qualified victim-employee shall be entitled to a leave of up to ten days with full pay, consisting of basic salary and mandatory allowances fixed by the Regional Wage Board, if any. The said leave shall be extended when the need arises, as specified in the protection order issued by the barangay or the court.
Leave For Victims Of Violence Against Women And Their Children (Vawc): Conditions for Entitlement
To be entitled to the leave benefit, the only requirement is for the victim- employee to present to her employer a certification from the barangay chairman (punong barangay), barangay councilor (barangay kagawad), prosecutor, or Clerk of Court, as the case may be, that an action relative to the matter is pending.
Leave For Victims Of Violence Against Women And Their Children (Vawc): Frequency of Availment
The usage of the ten-day leave shall be at the option of the woman employee. In the event that the leave benefit is not availed of, it shall not be convertible into cash and shall not be cumulative.