Short YouTube talk by John Jonas explaining how maternity and paternity leave works for Filipino online specialists: in the Philippines mothers are entitled to 105 days paid maternity leave plus 30 days unpaid, fathers to 7 days paternity leave; paid maternity benefits are administered by SSS provided the worker has paid contributions. Jonas advises foreign employers to allow leave (and optionally pay them) even if not legally bound, shares a personal anecdote, and promotes his book 'The Outsourcing Lever' with a shipping-only offer.
Questions this video answers
105 days of paid maternity leave.
30 days of unpaid maternity leave.
7 days of paternity leave.
Only if the worker has been paying their SSS (Social Security System) contributions.
The book is titled 'The Outsourcing Lever' and shipping is said to cost $7 (available via outsourcinglever.com).
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How to handle maternity leave with an online Filipino specialist. So if you have an OFS working for you, who is going to have a baby or has had a baby, maternity leave and paternity leave in the Philippines is a legal right. So here's how it works. In the Philippines, someone is entitled to 105 days of paid maternity leave and an additional 30 days of unpaid maternity leave. For paternity leave for a father, they're entitled to seven days. So the interesting thing with the Philippines is the government actually pays the salary during the maternity leave, but only if that worker is paying their SSS contributions. SSS is like their Social Security. So if your person is going to have a baby, they need to, number one, make sure that they're paying sss. Number two, when they have the baby, they need to handle getting paid by the sss. They may or may not want to take the full 105 days off from you, but they're probably going to get paid by the Philippines government during that time. Regardless. For me, if someone has a baby, I'm going to give them the time off, however much time off they want. I remember when my wife had multiple of our babies. We have five kids. When my wife had our kids, sometimes it was really hard for her to get back up and active, and other times it wasn't as hard. There was a time where it took her a good two months before she felt like she could do anything at all. And that was a really hard time for her and for me. So as a foreign employer, you're not required to give maternity leave or paternity leave. You're not bound by the laws of the Philippines, but really you should do this. Like, you should give them the time off and allow them to get paid or maybe pay them yourself. That way they can help their baby start off on the right foot. My name is John Jonas and I wrote a book all about the Philippines and hiring virtual assistants in the Philippines and the culture and the benefits and how to get great work done and why the Philippines. Specifically. It's titled the Outsourcing Lever. It's available@outroundinglever.com it's free. I want to send it to you if you'll just pay the shipping cost, which is $7 outsourcinglever.com.
