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HOUSE BILL No. 2228'S 4 2

Introduced by Rep. Winston “Winnie” Castelo

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The switch from an eight-hour, Monday to Friday work week, or 8/5, to a ten-hour,
Monday to Thursday work week, or 10/4, could produce tremendous savings for
workers and employers alike — if and when implemented in the public and private
sectors.

The ten-hour, four-day, or 10/4, work week is being proposed to address the rising
prices of goods and services and stagnant wages.

it is premised on this assertion: If wages couid not be raised due to muitifaceted
factors, which include the employers’ general aversion to iegisiated wage hikes, the

alternative is to lessen the workers’ expen

The proposed 10/4 work week addresses the changing work environment, which is
now characterized by the following:

1. increasing business process outsourcing, where even the core business.
junctions of many private firms, big or smail, are contracted to outside service
providers:

2. declining unionism, where only 200,000 unionized workers have
collective bargaining agreements, ere trade unions have generally
become ineffective to force employers to raise wages or arant benefits

3. _ growing “informaiization” of the formai sector, where many corporations
and other business enterprises in the formal sector opt to become part of the
informal sector, or the so-called “underground economy,” where firms do not
pay taxes, do not issue receipts, and do not register themselves for
appropriate state regulation;

4. _ subcontracting, and other decadent empioyer-empioyee relationship like
the so-called “five-month work contract” to circumvent the provisions of the
Labor Code;-and

5. _ other labor issues like rising meen and underemployment, wage
cuts, and «i on.
security, health insurance, among others.

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The advantages of the 10/4 work week scheme far outweigh the disadvantages.

The 10/4 work week could provide the following henefits to workers:

Greater morale and productivity for workers since he is not financially,

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mentally drained to attend to hi

2. The extended weekend wouid enable workers to spend greater time with
their families, providing them the domestic stability;

3. The extra day-off would enable workers to pursue other interest like
learning or retooling themselves with new skills that would be necessary to
the workplace;

4. The additional day-off wouid aiso enabie workers to pursue their hobbies
and leisure.

Also, the 10/4 proposed work schedule couid mean enormous savings, placed
conservatively at 20 percent of a worker's weekly expenditures while going to work
and returning home

if a worker in Metro Manila spends P200 a day in vanepor rt fare,
and other expenses in going to work, or P1,000 ev na 10)
mean a savings of P200 per week.

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For workers in the provinces, who spend a daily average of P'100 or less, the weekly
savings could be P100 or

Overall, the proposed 10/4 work week could mean weekly savings amounting to at
feast P20 billion for the over 20 r n private sector workers and 1.5 million state
employees

For employers, which inciude the government and private business efiterprises, the
savings on maintenance and operational expenditures are

CASTELO


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

First Regutar

HOUSE BiLL NO.

‘Introduced by Rep. Winston “Winnie” Castelo

AN ACT
MANDATING FOUR-DAY WORK WEEK IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS,
REQUIRING THERERY TEN HOURS OF WORK DANY AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES

Be it enacted in the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Rep!
Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1: This Act shail be known as the “Ten-Hour, Four-Day Work Week
Act of 2011.”

SECTION 2: Coverage of this Act: This mandates a four-day work week
starting from Monday to Thursday in public and private sectors, thereby requiring
workers to render ten hours of work daily during the said period

SECTION 3: Exemption: in the interest of emergency, security, natural
disasters, and other justifiable reasons, the strict observance of this Act may be
waived upon the judgment of the head of 2 government agency, or a private
enterprise, or when the exigency of services so requires.

442, or the Labor Code of the a ippines as amended, will apply on heads of
government agencies and private enterprises and other responsible persons, who
are found to have violated provisions of this Act.

SECTION 5: Repeal: All laws, decrees, executive orders, and rules and
regulations inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or
modified accordingly.

SECTION 6: impiementation: This Act shail take effect sixty (60) days after its
sorte publication in the Official Gazette and in at least three (3) newspapers of

Approved,