The Department of Human Resources has released guidelines for ASG employees under the 20-hour work week schedule now in effect.
DHR Director Mrs. Eseneiaso Liu said, “It is essential to empower team leaders to create to do lists and deadlines for employees to make sure projects are progressing at a good pace with completion deadlines set.”
Directors and agency heads are to provide the necessary support for employees working from home and keeping track of their responsibilities as well as their time at home, not anywhere else.
Employees must adhere to staying home and are prohibited from working in the private sector or another workplace other than home.
Directors are to maintain the required documentation of all employees and their daily schedules. Timekeepers and supervisors are responsible to report the total 80 hours per pay period with proof of the 20 hours worked within each work week.
If for any reason time cards do not have proof of the 20 hours worked per week, the Department of Human Resources Payroll division will deduct hours accordingly.
No overtime is allowed for employees on the 20 hour work week.
Employees subject to work on holidays are still required to request prior approval.
Employees who take leave are still required to present leave slips and supplementary documentation as required.
Directors are to encourage:
- sick employees to stay home and take ether sick leave or annual leave;
- minimize contact among employees, clients and customers; and
- establish alternating days or extra shifts that reduce the total number of employees in a facility at any given time, allowing them to maintain distance from one another while maintaining a full onsite work week.
