Republic of the Philippines

CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES

Metro Manila

Fifteenth Congress
Second Regular Session

Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-fifth day of July, two thousand eleven.

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10159 April 10, 2012

AN ACT AMENDING ARTICLE 39 OF ACT NO. 3815, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS

THE REVISED PENAL CODE

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress

assembled:

Section 1. Article 39 of Act No. 3815, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"Art. 39. Subsidiary Penalty. – If the convict has no property with which to meet the fine mentioned in
paragraph 3 of the next preceding article, he shall be subject to a subsidiary personal liability at the
rate of one day for each amount equivalent to the highest minimum wage rate prevailing in the
Philippines at the time of the rendition of judgment of conviction by the trial court, subject to the
following rules:

"1. If the principal penalty imposed be prision correctional or arresto and fine, he shall remain under
confinement until his fine referred in the preceding paragraph is satisfied, but his subsidiary
imprisonment shall not exceed one-third of the term of the sentence, and in no case shall it continue
for more than one year, and no fraction or part of a day shall be counted against the prisoner.

"2. When the principal penalty imposed be only a fine, the subsidiary imprisonment shall not exceed
six months, if the culprit shall have been prosecuted for a grave or less grave felony, and shall not
exceed fifteen days, if for a fight felony.

"3. When the principal penalty imposed is higher than prision correctional, no subsidiary
imprisonment shall be imposed upon the culprit.

"4. If the principal penalty imposed is not to be executed by confinement in a penal institution, but
such penalty is of fixed duration, the convict, during the period of time established in the preceding
rules, shall continue to suffer the same deprivations as those of which the principal penalty consists.

"5. The subsidiary personal liability which the convict may have suffered by reason of his insolvency
shall not relieve him from the fine in case his financial circumstances should improve." (As amended
by Republic Act No. 5465, which lapsed into law on April 21, 1969.)

Section 2. Separability Clause. – If any provision or part hereof is held invalid or unconstitutional,
the remainder of the law or the provision not otherwise affected shall remain valid and subsisting.

Section 3. Repealing Clause. – All laws, presidential decrees or issuances, executive orders, letters
of instruction, administrative orders or rules and regulations which may be inconsistent with this Act
shall be deemed repealed, amended or modified accordingly.
Section 4. Effectivity. – This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days following its publication in the
Official Gazette or in two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,

(Sgd.) FELICIANO BELMONTE JR. (Sgd.) JUAN PONCE ENRILE

Speaker of the House of Representatives President of the Senate

This Act which is a consolidation of Senate Bill No. 2808 and House Bill No. 600 was finally passed
by the Senate and the House of Representatives on May 23, 2011 and January 30, 2012,
respectively.

(Sgd.) MARILYN B. BARUA-YAP (Sgd.) EMMA LIRIO-REYES

Secretary General Secretary of Senate
House of Representatives

Approved: April 10, 2012

(Sgd.) BENIGNO S. AQUINO III

President of the Philippines
 MINIMUM WAGE RATES FOR DOMESTIC WORKERS
REGION X, Northern Mindanaoa/
Per Wage Order No. RBX-DW-01b/
Effective: 06 December 2017

Area/Location Minimum Wage under Amount of New Minimum Wage

RA No. 10361 Increase Rate upon effectivity

Chartered cities and first ₱2,000.00 ₱1,000.00 ₱3,000.00

class municipalities

Other municipalities ₱1,500.00 ₱500.00 ₱2,000.00

a/ Region X covers the Provinces of Bukidnon, Camiguin, Misamis Occidental, Misamis

Oriental, and Lanao del Norte, and the Cities of Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, Gingoog,
Oroquieta, Tangub, Malaybalay, and Valencia.

b/ Amount of Increase:

 ₱1,000.00 in chartered cities and first class municipalities

 ₱500.00 in other municipalities

Issued on 14 November 2017; published at Mindanao Daily on 21 November 2017.

Posted on 24 November 2017

DAILY MINIMUM WAGE RATES

REGION X, Northern Mindanao a/
Per Wage Order No. RBX-19 b/
Effective : 16 July 2017

Non-Agriculture Agriculture

Classificat MW Increa Basic COL MWR MW Increa Basic COL MWR

ion R se in Wage A upon R se in Wage A upon
under Basic under effectiv under Basic under effectiv
WO Wage WO ity WO Wage WO ity
 Non-Agriculture Agriculture

RX- RX- RX- RX-

18 19 18 19

Wage ₱318. ₱15.00 ₱333. ₱5.0 ₱338.00 ₱306. ₱15.00 ₱321. ₱5.0 ₱326.00
Category I 00 00 0 00 00 0

Wage ₱313. ₱13.00 ₱326. ₱5.0 ₱331.00 ₱301. ₱13.00 ₱314. ₱5.0 ₱319.00
Category 00 00 0 00 00 0
II

Wage ₱308. ₱10.00 ₱318. ₱5.0 ₱323.00 ₱296. ₱10.00 ₱306. ₱5.0 ₱311.00
Category 00 00 0 00 00 0
III

Wage ₱303. ₱8.00 ₱311. ₱5.0 ₱316.00 ₱291. ₱8.00 ₱299. ₱5.0 ₱304.00
Category 00 00 0 00 00 0
IV

/ Wage Category I - Cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, and the Municipalities of Tagaloan, Villanueva, and Jasaan
Wage Category II - Cities of Malaybalay, Valencia, Gingoog, El Salvador and Ozamiz, and the Municipalities of Opo
Maramag, Quezon, and Manolo Fortich
Wage Category III - Cities of Oroquieta and Tangub and the Municipalities of Lugait, Laguindingan and Mambajao
Wage Category IV - All other areas not covered under the above categories; and All Retail and Service Establishments
employing not more than ten(10) workers

/ Grants the following:

 Upon effectivity:
o Amount of Increase:
 AREA CLASSIFICATION INCREASE

Wage Category I ₱15.00 basic wage and ₱5.00 COLA

Wage Category II ₱13.00 basic wage and ₱5.00 COLA

Wage Category III ₱10.00 basic wage and ₱5.00 COLA

Wage Category IV ₱8.00 basic wage and ₱5.00 COLA

o Increase as a result of area reclassification:

AREA CLASSIFICATION INCREASE

Municipality of Opol ₱18.00 basic wage and ₱5.00 COLA

Municipality of Laguindingan ₱15.00 basic wage and ₱5.00 COLA

 Effective 01 December 2017:

o Integration of COLA into the basic pay

Issued on 23 May 2017 and published on 01 July 2017 at Mindanao Daily News

Updated 07 July 2017