Short answer. Not the amount the Labor Code prints. That article was repealed by Republic Act No. 10361 (2013), the Batas Kasambahay, which now sets what a domestic worker is owed when the employment is ended without just cause. The figure has to be read from that Act.

What the law says

If the househelper is unjustly dismissed, he or she shall be paid the compensation already earned plus that for fifteen (15) days by way of indemnity.

Labor Code, Article 149 — Indemnity For Unjust Termination. Read the full provision →

Why the old figure cannot be relied on

Article 149 of the Labor Code said that where a fixed term was cut short, If the househelper is unjustly dismissed, he or she shall be paid the compensation already earned plus that for fifteen (15) days by way of indemnity. It set a mirror-image forfeiture against a househelper who left without justifiable reason. That article was expressly repealed by Republic Act No. 10361 (2013), the Batas Kasambahay, whose repealing clause struck out the entire Labor Code chapter on the employment of househelpers. The text survives on this site as history. What a dismissed kasambahay is owed today is fixed by that Act, and it is the Act's own termination provisions that must be read.

The shape of the entitlement

Two things are worth separating, because households often run them together. Wages already earned are owed no matter how the employment ended — they are not a penalty and they are not forfeited by a bad parting. Indemnity is different: it is what the law adds when the ending was without just cause. Republic Act No. 10361 provides for both, and also for the position where the kasambahay is the one who leaves without a lawful reason. Read the amount and the conditions from the Act itself rather than carrying the repealed figure across.

What makes a dismissal unjust

The starting question is whether there was a ground the law recognises, and whether the household can actually show it. A suspicion, a change of mind, a relative moving in, or the end of a household's convenience are not causes. Nor is an accusation that is never put to the worker. The grounds on which a kasambahay's employment may lawfully be ended, and the process for doing so, are laid down in Republic Act No. 10361. An employer who cannot point to one of them is dealing with a termination without just cause, whatever the notice given.

If you have been sent away

Write down the dates: when you started, what you were paid and how often, when you were told to go, what reason was given and by whom. Keep the employment contract, the registration papers and any record of payments, and note anything still unpaid. A claim is far easier to press when the period and the amount are concrete. Money claims are subject to time limits, so do not leave it. This page gives general legal information about which law now applies, not advice on your case, and no page can promise what a claim will recover.

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