DOLE Policy and Program Development Division chief Nicanor Bon (Screengrab from Laging Handa briefing) MANILA - Some 50,000 establishments in the country have complied with the grant of holiday pay to their workers in the first nine months of this year, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on Thursday. "So, our compliance rate, as far as holiday pay is concerned is high, 97 percent," Nicanor Bon, chief of the DOLE's Policy and Program Development Division, said in a Laging Handa briefing. Meanwhile, he said over 1,400 firms failed to comply with the measure. "Those who failed to comply are at 1,472. So, our data so far on violations on the payment of holiday pay is low," he said. Bon, however, said businesses that fully stopped operations during the community quarantine are exempted from paying holiday pay. He meanwhile, said the public may report to the DOLE offices in their region or they may call the DOLE Hotline 1349, to report establishments t
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so it has to be intelligently designed, and presumably some piece of this will be that offices will become a little bit more like we work, that model of the idea that you come in and out, plug in and leave becomes the new model? i think what might be more likely to happen could be a situation where there are more satellite offices. rei, the apparel retailer, did something really interesting where they gave up their headquarters building in favor of creating satellite offices so that people could go to work but go to work in a smaller office that would be closer to their home. so you are surrounded by colleagues, which is helpful, right? but at the same time you are not having to make that long commute into the center of the city. one of the big changes that we might see, i think, would be