Article 102Forms of Payment

No employer shall pay the wages of an employee by means of promissory notes, vouchers, coupons, tokens, tickets, chits, or any object other than legal tender, even when expressly requested by the employee. Payment of wages by check or money order shall be allowed when such manner of payment is customary on the date of effectivity of this Code, or is necessary because of special circumstances as specified in appropriate See also R.A. No. 9178 (2002), BMBE Act of 2002, which exempts from the minimum wage law, a barangay micro business enterprise (BMBE).

As amended by Section 3 of R.A. No. 6727 (1989), Wage Rationalization Act, which provides that "[t]he minimum wage rates for agricultural and non-agricultural employees and workers in each and every region of the country shall be those prescribed by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards."

See Book III, Rule VII, Chapter I, Section 9 of the Omnibus Rules Implementing the Labor Code, which provides that all workers paid by results shall receive not less than the applicable statutory minimum wage rates "for the normal working hours which shall not exceed eight hours work a day, or a proportion thereof for work of less than the normal working hours" and further outlines the steps in the computation of the "adjusted minimum wage rates for workers paid by results." 16 of 159 regulations to be issued by the Secretary of Labor and Employment or as stipulated in a collective bargaining agreement.