A House leader is prodding the Department of Finance (DOF) and the Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) to help business process outsourcing (BPO) companies retain their tax incentives under the CREATE law as well as their work-from-home jobs. Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda Albay 2nd...
laptop-5448504_960_720 The Department of Health (DOH) has expressed support for the continued adoption of the work-from-home scheme as this can help lower the transmission of Covid-19 and other diseases. "We agree to this. Marami na pong pag aaral all over the world ang lumabas na marami ang nag...
Information Technology and Business Processing Outsourcing (IT-BPO) enterprises registered with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) need to transfer to the Board of Investments (BOI) to retain their tax incentives and continue their work from home (WFH) arrangement, the Department of...
Senator Joel Villanueva has sought congressional passage of his bill allowing businesses registered in investment promotion agencies to adopt a work-from-home (WFH) arrangement for their employees while maintaining their tax and fiscal incentives. The grace period for companies in the Information...
Senator Grace Poe has asked the government to "think outside the cubicle" and allow modern technologies for hybrid work arrangements in the country to thrive in promoting inclusive economic growth. In a privilege speech during the plenary session Tuesday, Aug. 16, Poe said "Hybrid work is not a...
Senator Francis Tolentino has sought a P1,000 non-taxable allowance a month for government and private sector workers who work from home. In an unnumbered bill filed this week, Tolentino said his measure seeks to expand the coverage of the Telecommuting Act and provide incentives for telecommuting...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Wednesday, June 22 encouraged more government agencies and the private sector to engage in flexible work arrangements to save on fuel and transportation costs as the price of oil continue to climb as a result of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Gatchalian said...
Civil Service Commission (CSC) Commissioner Aileen Lourdes Lizada clarified on Wednesday, June 8 that those who are under the work-from-home setup are not entitled to overtime pay. Pixabay During the Laging Handa Public Briefing, Lizada said that overtime pay is allowed if a person exceeds the...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday, June 8, urged the incoming economic managers of President-elect Ferdinand Marcos jr. to resolve the “work from home” (WFH) impasse in the information technology-business process management (IT-BPM) sector and remove the anxiety of their investors and...
The Senate has approved on third and final reading Senate Bill No. 1834, or the Philippine Digital Workforce Competitiveness Act, which aims to prepare the Filipino workforce for the jobs of the future through education and training on digital skills. Senator Joel Villanueva, principal author and...
The Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) is not bowing down to pressure as the interagency body stood firm on its decision that the work-from-home (WFH) setup for registered information technology-business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) firms was only temporary. In a statement on Thursday, April 28,...
"Work-from-home" or WFH is a term that gained popularity due to sheer necessity during the Covid-19 pandemic. But a former congressman in the current 18th Congress thinks that the proper term should be "work from anywhere" or WFA. (Simon Hattinga Verschure/ Unsplash) “Let us stop living in the...
