The Department of Labor and Employment said that employers may opt to shift to a four-day workweek to alleviate the inconvenience being experienced by its employees due to scorching heat.
“The four-day workweek is a flexible work arrangement. Flexible work arrangements are the prerogative and one of the options of our employers, in consultation with their employees,” he said in a television interview. “If this will ensure the safety of the employees and their productivity will be maintained or improved, then why not?” he said.“Each worker will still work 40 hours per week. But instead of five days, it will be four; instead of eight hours a day, it will be 10 hours a day,” Benavidez noted.
DO 198, which contains the implementing rules and regulations of Republic Act 11058 or “An Act Strengthening Compliance with Occupational, Safety and Healthy Standards,” applies to “all establishments, projects sites and all other places where work is being undertaken in all branches of economic activity.”