DIGOS CITY — Davao del Sur Governor Douglas Cagas has ordered a four-day work-week in the province to protect its employees and the public against the threat of the coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19. Although the new work arrangement reduces the employee’s workweek to four days, it increases the number of work hours of employees to 10 hours per day. Cagas said the province would implement the four-day work-week throughout the entire duration of the state of public health emergency in the country due to COVID-19. Approved schedules of the four-day workweek scheme would be submitted by the department heads to the human resource department, which in turn would submit it to the governor’s office before March 17. President Rodrigo Duterte has declared a state of public health emergency throughout the country and placed the entire Metro Manila under “community quarantine” from March 15 to April 14, 2020, due to COVID-19.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 15, 2020 09:22 UTC