{"id":273230,"date":"2020-10-28T06:51:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=273230"},"modified":"2020-10-28T06:51:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:51:47","slug":"floating-employees-allowed-to-find-alternative-work-dole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/28\/floating-employees-allowed-to-find-alternative-work-dole\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Floating&#8217; employees allowed to find alternative work: DOLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249288\" style=\"width: 1440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1440px-DOLEIntramurosjf0430_14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249288\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1440px-DOLEIntramurosjf0430_14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1440px-DOLEIntramurosjf0430_14.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1440px-DOLEIntramurosjf0430_14-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1440px-DOLEIntramurosjf0430_14-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1440px-DOLEIntramurosjf0430_14-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The DO, signed by DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III on October 23 and was released on Tuesday, allowed the extension of the floating status of workers for another six months. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=30785011\">photo by Ramon FVelasquez\/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 An official of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Wednesday said workers are allowed to find alternative employment while they are on \u201cfloating status\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can look for work&#8230;They can have alternative work, without losing their employment with their present employment,\u201d Labor Undersecretary Benjo Benavidez said in a virtual forum, citing DOLE&#8217;s Department Order (DO) No. 215, Series of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DO, employees will not lose their job if they were able to find alternative employment while under floating status.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProvided, however, that the employees shall not lose employment if they find alternative employment during the extended suspension of employment except in cases of written, unequivocal and voluntarily resignation,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The DO, signed by DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III on October 23 and was released on Tuesday, allowed the extension of the floating status of workers for another six months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn case of declaration of war, pandemic and similar national emergencies, the employer and the employees through the union, if any, or with the assistance of the Department of Labor and Employment, shall meet in good faith for the purpose of extending the suspension of employment for a period of not exceeding six (6) months,\u201d the order added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Benavidez said labor groups are free to question the legality of the DO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome that. It will enrich jurisprudence. But I hope that they won\u2019t invoke the DO to benefit their members. We don\u2019t want to see employees lose their employment, lest, they permanently lose if they are dismissed on the sole ground that the six months floating (status) has already lapsed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 An official of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Wednesday said workers are allowed to find alternative &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":249288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273230","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=273230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273232,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273230\/revisions\/273232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}