LOOK: Motorist pack the northbound lane of EDSA in Guadalupe, Makati as the national capital region (NCR) prepares to revert to enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) for two weeks. — INQUIRER/GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE
MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang has ordered all government agencies in Metro Manila to reduce their on-site personnel to just 20 percent while the rest work from home during the two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) from August 6 to 20, 2021.
In Memorandum Circular No. 87 signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea released Wednesday, a full on-site capacity can only be employed by agencies providing health and emergency frontline services, laboratory and testing services, border control, and other critical services.
The directive defined on-site capacity as the number of employees or workers who are physically present at their designated workplaces outside residence.
All government agencies in Metro Manila ordered to reduce to 20 percent its on-site personnel while the rest work from home during the two-week ECQ from Aug. 6 – 20, a Malacañang memo says. | @KAguilarINQ pic.twitter.com/o8tVeUN7Re
— Inquirer (@inquirerdotnet) August 4, 2021
Malacañang also ordered heads of Metro Manila agencies to report to their department head the “specific percentage of the agency’s skeleton workforce, together with the arrangements to ensure continuing operation of the agency.”
Still, department heads may modify the submitted on-site capacity and related arrangements “as health considerations and the exigencies of the service may require.”
Legislative and judicial branches of government, independent constitutional bodies, and local government units in Metro Manila were also urged to adopt Memorandum Circular No. 87.
From August 6 to 20, Metro Manila will be under ECQ to prevent further transmission of the COVID-19 Delta variant.