Senator Imee Marcos wants work from home arrangement mandatory
In
the second quarter of 2020, 7,192 confirmed cases of the current worldwide virus
pandemic infection, tolling 477 deaths had been tallied.
On
April 24, 2020, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte announced the extension of the
enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in high risk areas, while other regions
remained under general community quarantine (GCQ).
Clearly,
a “new normal” of social distancing,
new hygiene standards and limited physical contact shall prevail into the
future.
Various
sectors have to make major modifications in their policy to ensure compliance
with social distancing measures.
Senator
Imee Marcos has filed Senate Bill 1448
which seeks to amend Republic Act 11165 (Telecommuting
Act), where telecommuting defined as a work arrangement that allows an
employee to perform his tasks from an alternative workplace with the use of
telecommunication and/or computer technologies.
As
of June 23, 2020, the Department of Health (DOH) recorded 31, 825 confirmed
cases of infection with 1,186 deaths tallied.
The
said bill seeks to strengthen the telecommuting law by making it MANDATORY and not merely optional, for
employers to offer telecommuting as an alternative to its employees whose physical
presence in the workplace is not absolutely essential to the performance of
their functions.
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