Nationwide four-day work pushed
By BEN R. ROSARIO

MANILA, Philippines — An administration congressman Sunday batted for a four-day work week in the country, saying that the proposed work schedule can be an effective measure to cut expenditures for both employers and workers.

Rep. Winston Castelo (LP, Quezon City) vowed to file the “Four Day Work Week Act of 2011” soon even as he cited the extended weekend that workers may spent with their respective family as among the strong arguments going for his proposal.

Castelo said that under the proposal, workers will still allot 40 hours of work for each week.

“It will still be 40 hours a week, but the work schedule will run from Monday to Thursday instead of until Friday. Public and private sector employees will put in two additional hours of work daily,” Castelo said.

The neophyte lawmaker was apparently inspired by the four-day work week being implemented in the House of Representatives.

While lawmakers are required to report for three plenary sessions per week they are sometimes tasked to do attend to an additional day for committee hearings.

House employees are mandated to log in four days in office, from Mondays to Thursdays.

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