An Act to Fix a Minimum Daily Wage for Laborers Employed in Public Work, and Providing Penalties for the Violation Thereof

November 21, 1936

COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 211

AN ACT TO FIX A MINIMUM DAILY WAGE FOR LABORERS EMPLOYED IN PUBLIC WORK, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF

SECTION 1. All laborers employed by corporation, person, or persons in any public work shall receive a minimum daily wage of one peso. In the case of a provincial and municipal public works, the province or municipality may pay lower wages, if financial conditions of the province or municipality so demand. cACHSE

SECTION 2. The contractor and each subcontractor shall keep, or cause to be kept, an accurate record showing the names and occupation of all laborers employed by him, in connection with the said public work, and showing also the actual daily wage paid to each of such workers. Said record shall be open during all reasonable hours to the inspection of the public body awarding the contract and its officers and agents.

SECTION 3. Any officer, agent, or representative of the Government of the Philippines, or of any political subdivision and thereof, who shall wilfully violate or omit to comply with any of the provisions of this Act, and any contractor or subcontractor, or agent or representative thereof, doing public work as aforesaid, who shall violate this Act or neglect to keep, or cause to be kept, an accurate record of the names, occupation, and actual wages paid to each laborer employed by him in connection with the said public work or who shall refuse to allow access to same at any reasonable hour to any person authorized to inspect same under this Act, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding one thousand pesos or by imprisonment for not exceeding six months, or both, in the discretion of the court.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven.

Approved, November 21, 1936.