The 13th Month Bonus in The Philippines

Hi! It's Tyrone from Tyroneshum.com and welcome to the dedicated channel where I help you with outsourcing, automation and lifestyle business design. All right, it is nearing very, very close to the festive season and according to my clock, it's only a few days away from Christmas and also to a whole new year for New Year's Eve coming very soon. But before we do go to holidays and festivities season, I want to share with you something that I've been getting asked as a question recently and I thought this is very, very important to realize. Now this is specifically targeted towards people who are outsourcing and the topic that I want to share with you is talking about the holidays for the Filipino workers inside Philippines. And if you're outsourcing specifically from the Philippines, what you'll find is that at the end of the year, towards end of the year you need to also consider giving a bonus to your Filipino employees or Filipino staff. And this is a very common tradition and it's what they called the 13th month. And as the festive season comes along, if you've had your employee working for you for at least a minimum of 12 months, basically as a tradition you'd want to pay them a 13th month bonus. And this 13th month bonus is what we call just an extra month of the same pay that they're getting. Let's just say for example they're getting paid $400 a month. In the 13th month which say it's December right now, you'll pay them extra $400 as part of their packaged salary. Now that's just a little tradition that they have inside the Philippines and it's pretty much well-known. If you're uncertain and you don't know what to do, this is something that I highly, highly recommend you do. Now a lot of people come back to me and say okay, well what happened if they haven't been working for you for more than 12 months? Well, that's a really good question. Say they've only been working for 6 months then what I would do is to prorate that and pay them 13th month bonus based on 6 months. So as I said if it's say for $400 for the month that they're getting paid and you're going to pay them bonus, 6 months is basically half of the time of 12 months. So instead of paying them 400, you'll pay them $200 as a 13th month bonus and that's basically prorated based on how many months. And it's something that the Filipino culture has come to expect, and it's something that I recommend that you do follow. And if you'll look at it in own side and you'll look at it as the overall picture it's just an incentive to thank them very, very much for this festive season and also for the hard work all throughout the year. And that's something that I've already done as well already. Usually you can pay at the end of December or whenever you put your funds into your virtual assistants or your staff. So that's just something that I just want to share with you as a little tip for anyone who's actually hired people from the Philippines and working with people from the Philippines. All right now before you do go, I just want to say to you, I'm going to wish you a merry, merry Christmas. These are some of the cards I've been buying and I've been sending out to some really, really close friends and some family friends and stuff like that. It's nothing really special, it's just a glance around the cards. But what I want to say to you before we head into festive season, I want to wish you a merry, merry Christmas and also a happy new year for 2011 and I just want you to have a really great 2011 and hopefully you'll bear this one and furthermore a really happy and fulfilling 2011 as well. And all I just want to say for you is stay safe, have fun and enjoy the great times ahead. So thank you very, very much. If you have any further comments, feel free to leave them right down below. And love to hear any of your feedback as well in terms of that one or any further question. Now, if you like more resources like this one, you can find them inside Mass Outsource Mastermind along with video tutorials and step by step instructions showing exactly how I use them. To get a 30-day no risk trial membership to Mass Outsource Mastermind, simply visit FreeVideoSet.com. Until next time, I wish you success in your quest for outsourcing.