PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte will announce his decision on the proposed four-day workweek on March 21, the Palace spokesman said on Thursday. READ:
“We will know the decision on Monday,” the President’s acting spokesman Jose Ruperto Martín M. Andanar told DZBB radio, according to a transcript issued by the Office of the President.“The important thing is that President Duterte told … after the Secretary gave his recommendation, that whatever decision the economic cluster will make is our policy because that is their forte,” Mr. Andanar said.
The proposal requires workers to render 40 hours of work per week over four 10-hour days, Mr. Chua said at the Tuesday meeting. “We can appeal to the private sector to implement because again, it’s management prerogative, they have to decide on this and it’s within their sole jurisdiction,” he told ABS-CBN News Channel.In a statement, the Trade Union Council of the Philippines reminded the government and private sector that the proposed compressed workweek would require the consent of workers “because it means setting aside the eight-hour workday.
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