Probationary Employment in the Philippines vs Regular Employment
One day, you receive a familiar email - it’s from the company of your dreams, saying you’ve passed their final assessment. Greetings! We are pleased to offer you the role of senior copywriter at Company A. For six months, you will be a probationary employee. Once you meet all our standards, you will then sign a new contract as a regular employee. We look forward to working with you at Company A! Thank you. This is definitely a share-worthy email, especially if it’s your first job. On your first day of work, your new employer will ask you to sign a contract. That contract will typically have what is known as a "probationary period". Philippines probationary employment, according to the Labor Code “shall not exceed six (6) months.” (Article 281). The Civil Code of the Philippines defined the "months" further by saying that (Article 13), When the laws speak of years, months, days or nights, it shall be understood that years are of three hundred sixty-five days each; m