Zambales town adopts 4-day workweek amid extreme heat, fuel price hike
SAN ANTONIO, Zambales — The municipal government of Candelaria, Zambales will implement a four-day workweek and a temporary work-from-home (WFH) arrangement for government personnel beginning on October 19 to address “the prevailing extreme heat and rising fuel prices,” Mayor Byron Jones E. Edquilang said in a memorandum.
Under the new arrangement, municipal employees will work from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Monday to Thursday.
Friday, Oct. 16, will be observed as a WFH day for personnel covered by the arrangement.
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Employees providing essential frontline services, public safety, emergency response, sanitation, maintenance and field operations are exempted and must continue reporting on-site from Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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These include personnel assigned to the Rural Health Office, Traffic Management Group, Motor Pool, plaza and waste segregation teams, garbage collection, commercial building and cemetery maintenance, police job order personnel, quarantine checkpoints, Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, mayor’s security, school security, and tourism field and ticketing operations.
“All concerned are directed to comply accordingly,” the memorandum said. /gsg
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