The Civil Service Commission is making permanent the alternative and flexible work arrangement for government employees, Commissioner Aileen Lizada said Thursday.
Interviewed on Super Radyo dzBB, Lizada said the flexi-workplace would be implemented even without a pandemic.
“The new Commission (is) straightening out and making the flexi-workplace permanent. We are institutionalizing it, not only during the time of the pandemic,” she said.
Lizada said CSC Memorandum Circular 18 issued in 2020 on alternative and flexible work arrangement was only effective during a public health emergency, which is set to end by September this year.
The flexi-workplace includes work-from-home, skeletal workforce, four-day compressed workweek, staggered working hours, and a combination of the four.
Meanwhile, the four-day workweek implemented in the Court of Appeals, Sandiganbayan and Court of Tax Appeals to produce the 10-hour work per day, like in the Supreme Court, will shift back to the eight-hour work per day starting Monday, April 4.
Earlier, Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo ordered the return to regular eight-hour daily work, also starting on April 4, after it found that the 10-hour work per day on a four-day workweek has caused inconvenience to many employees and “is counter-productive.”
Under the eight-hour daily work, certain officials and employees at the CA and the CTA, just like at the SC, will have to report physically for work from Monday to Thursday, while others would have to be onsite from Tuesday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 pm.
SC, CA and CTA officials and employees who are not reporting on Monday and Friday will have to work from home.
At the Sandiganbayan, being both a trial court and an appellate court, heads of offices would have to determine who will report for work from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from Monday to Friday and who will work from home for one day during the week.