{"id":194321,"date":"2018-12-17T06:09:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T11:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=194321"},"modified":"2018-12-17T06:09:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T11:09:25","slug":"palace-suspends-govt-work-on-jan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/17\/palace-suspends-govt-work-on-jan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace suspends gov\u2019t work on Jan. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_193296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193296\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ES_Fukuda2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-193296\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ES_Fukuda2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ES_Fukuda2.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ES_Fukuda2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ES_Fukuda2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ES_Fukuda2-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-193296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea delivers his speech during the Fukuda Doctrine Commemoration at the Manila Hotel on October 1, 2018. TOTO LOZANO\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday suspended government work on Jan. 2, 2019 to give public servants &#8220;full opportunity&#8221; to enjoy New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in Memorandum Circular No. 54 signed on December 17 by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea, by authority of the President Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther to Proclamation No. 555 (s. 2018) issued by the President declaring 01 January 2019 (New Year\u2019s Day) as a regular holiday, and in order to give the employees of the government full opportunity to celebrate such holiday with their families and loved ones, work in government offices, throughout the country, including government-owned or \u2013controlled corporation, government financial institutions, state universities and colleges, local government units, and other agencies and instrumentalities, is hereby suspended on 02 January 2019,\u201d the memorandum read.<\/p>\n<p>Medialdea, however, said government agencies whose function involved the delivery of basic and health services, preparedness\/response to disasters and calamities, and\/or the performance of other vital services \u201cshall continue with their operations and render the necessary services\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspension of work on the same date in their branches of government and in independent commission or bodies, as well as in private companies and office, is left to the sound discretion of their respective heads\/management,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday suspended government work on Jan. 2, 2019 to give public servants &#8220;full opportunity&#8221; to enjoy New &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":193296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-jelly-musico","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194321","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}