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The Civil Service Commission (CSC) is now considering allowing work-from-home arrangements even after the pandemic has ended.
CSC Commissioner Aileen Lizada said they support measures that will institutionalize the WFH scheme and other forms of flexible work arrangements such as the skeletal workforce, staggered work hours, and the skeletal workforce.
He noted that this will allow them to be prepared for a future crisis that could disrupt office operations.
“If there is a pandemic, we will publish a guide. If there is an earthquake, consult a guide. So we have to simplify all of this … we are moving in this direction not to react to any event, ”Lizada said.
Reissue
Last May, CSC already issued Circular Memorandum No. 10, 2020 series that contains guidelines for government offices in the implementation of flexible work arrangements during the pandemic.
Lizada said they will launch another broadcast to ensure that the public service is not affected by such flexible labor agreements.
“The Civil Service Commission will publish another circular memorandum on the matter that will place a point system so that there are checks and balances especially for those [public servants] working from home, ”Lizada said.
PhilHealth problem
On another matter, Lizada said that she will ensure that future cases related to the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) filed at the CSC go through scrutiny.
She made the statement after learning that there were some PhilHealth-related cases, which went through an unusual transfer from their regional offices and the central office.
“There were cases that were elevated to the central office. There were some, who were in the jurisdiction of the central but were sent to the regional [offices]”Lizada said.
He also noted that there were some PhilHealth-related cases, which take more than a year to resolve, as well as cases where the cases included unauthorized certifications.
“That’s why I asked my legal, we finished examining the case records,” Lizada said.
To recall, Lizada recently accused CSC President Alicia dela Rosa-Bala of “suppressing” the disclosure of information related to PhilHealth in the ongoing investigation being conducted by the House of Representatives, a claim that was denied by the CSC in a statement last week.
