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SECURITY and CREDIT Sundays and 200% of their salary for work done on
INVESTIGATION, INC. and/or RENE AMBY REYES holidays; and,
January 16, 2012 | DEL CASTILLO 5. Canoy and Pigcaulan were paid the corresponding
13th month pay for the years 1998 and 1999.
Doctrine: In support thereof, copies of payroll listingsand lists
One who pleads payment has the burden of proving it. Even when the of employees who received their 13th month pay
employee alleges non-payment, still the general rule is that the for the periods December 1997 to November 1998
burden rests on the employer to prove payment, rather than on the and December 1998 to November 1999 were
employee to prove non-payment. presented.
The Labor Arbiter relied heavily on the itemized computations they With respect to 13th month pay, SCII presented proof that this benefit
submitted which he considered as representative daily time records to was paid but only for the years 1998 and 1999. To repeat, the
substantiate the award of salary differentials. The handwritten burden of proving payment of these monetary claims rests on
itemized computations are self-serving, unreliable and unsubstantial SCII. It is a rule that one who pleads payment has the burden
of proving it. Even when the plaintiff alleges non-payment, remanded to the Labor Arbiter for a detailed computation of the
still the general rule is that the burden rests on the monetary benefits due to him.
defendant to prove payment, rather than on the plaintiff to
prove non-payment. WHEREFORE, the petition is GRANTED. The decision of the Court
of Appeals is SET ASIDE. Petitioner Abduljuahid R. Pigcaulan is
Consistent with the rule that all money claims arising from an hereby declared ENTITLED to holiday pay and service incentive
employer-employee relationship shall be filed within three years from leave pay for the years 1997-2000 and proportionate 13th month pay
the time the cause of action accrued Pigcaulan can only demand the for the year 2000. The case is REMANDED to the Labor Arbiter for
amounts due him for the period within three years preceding the filing further proceedings.
of the complaint in 2000. Since the records are insufficient to use as
bases to properly compute Pigcaulans claims, the case should be