{"id":234689,"date":"2019-10-15T20:42:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T00:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=234689"},"modified":"2019-10-15T20:42:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T00:42:14","slug":"senator-wants-to-enhance-public-awareness-on-telecommuting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/15\/senator-wants-to-enhance-public-awareness-on-telecommuting\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator wants to enhance public awareness on telecommuting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_213025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-213025\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/51263711_2247277301997623_4658618423150903296_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-213025\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/51263711_2247277301997623_4658618423150903296_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/51263711_2247277301997623_4658618423150903296_n.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/51263711_2247277301997623_4658618423150903296_n-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-213025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Villanueva, chair of the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development, particularly called on the labor authorities in Cebu to take drastic steps to mitigate its impact following the declaration of a traffic crisis in the province by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joelvillanueva.org\/photos\/a.229128603812513\/2247277298664290\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joelvillanueva.org\/\">Joel Villanueva\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Senator Joel Villanueva on Tuesday urged the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to ramp up the awareness on the Telecommuting Law (Republic Act No. 11165), which encourages the private sector to develop and implement telecommuting work arrangements with their employees, amid the country\u2019s worsening traffic problem.<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva, chair of the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development, particularly called on the labor authorities in Cebu to take drastic steps to mitigate its impact following the declaration of a traffic crisis in the province by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it may not be the magic pill that will resolve the traffic situation, we believe that the impact of the law will help reduce the need of workers to travel to their places of work, thereby easing the demand in public transport in the short term,\u201d Villanueva said.<\/p>\n<p>He said telecommuting allows workers to maintain their productivity with the lesser time they allot to travel from one place to another.<\/p>\n<p>He cited that the law\u2019s implementing rules and regulations mandate the DOLE to undertake a study to identify jobs that can be fulfilled under a telecommuting work arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe study will help guide employers as they consider implementing their own telecommuting policies in their office,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those companies that have existing telecommuting policies, we urge them to notify the DOLE Regional Office which has jurisdiction to ensure that these are compliant with existing labor laws and regulations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senator Joel Villanueva on Tuesday urged the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to ramp up the awareness on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":213025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234689","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=234689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234690,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234689\/revisions\/234690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}