{"id":138867,"date":"2017-12-13T03:39:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T08:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=138867"},"modified":"2017-12-13T03:39:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T08:39:53","slug":"house-gives-a-go-to-the-4-day-work-week-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/13\/house-gives-a-go-to-the-4-day-work-week-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"House gives a go to the 4-day work week bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill that strives to allow Filipino workers to work in just four days in a week.<br \/>\nThe house bill 6152 institutionalizes a compressed work-week policy to promote business competitiveness, work efficiency and labor productivity.<br \/>\nHowever, these arrangements are optional. According to Baguio City Rep. Mark Go, one of the authors of the bill, \u201cthis won\u2019t penalize companies who will not implement a four-day work-week since this is only optional.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis concept can be adjusted accordingly in case where the normal work-week of the company is five days,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nFurthermore, Go said, \u201cThese arrangements give employers and employees flexibility in fixing hours of work compatible with business requirements and the employees\u2019 need for a balanced work-life.\u201d<br \/>\nThe secretary of labor and employment will submit the necessary implementing rules and regulations within 90 days of the laws implementation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 08 \/\u00a028 \/ 17)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill that strives to allow Filipino workers to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}