Policy on Half Day Absence

August 19, 2010 BLGF MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 009-10 TO : All BLGF Officials and Employees, Regional Directors for Local Government Finance, District Treasurers of Metropolitan Manila; Provincial, City and Municipal Treasurers and Others Concerned SUBJECT : Policy on Half Day Absence For the information and guidance of all concerned, quoted below is the full text of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) Memorandum Circular No. 17, s. 2010, dated August 6, 2010 on the above subject matter, to wit: "Pursuant to CSC Resolution No. 10-1358 * dated July 6, 2010, the Commission resolves to promulgate the following guidelines on Half Day Absence, as follows: "1. Any Officer or employee who is absent in the morning is considered to be tardy and is subject to the provisions on Habitual Tardiness; and "2. Any Officer or employee who is absent in the afternoon is considered to have incurred undertime, subject to the provisions on Undertime." The Regional Directors of this Bureau are hereby instructed to disseminate the contents of this Circular to all Provincial, City and Municipal Treasurers within their respective jurisdiction, likewise enjoining them to observe and comply with the provisions thereof. Be guided accordingly. ScTaEA (SGD.) MA. PRESENTACION R. MONTESA, CESO III Executive Director ATTACHMENT Republic of the Philippines Civil Service Commission Constitution Hills, Batasang Pambansa Complex, Diliman 1126 Quezon City August 6, 2010 CSC MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 017-10 TO : All Heads of Departments, Bureaus, Offices and Agencies of the National and Local Governments, Including State Universities and Colleges and Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations with Original Charter SUBJECT : Policy on Half Day Absence Pursuant to CSC Resolution No. 10-1358 * dated July 6, 2010, the Commission resolves to promulgate the following guidelines on Half Day Absence, as follows: CAaEDH 1. Any officer or employee who is absent in the morning is considered to be tardy and is subject to the provisions on Habitual Tardiness; and 2. Any officer or employee who is absent in the afternoon is considered to have incurred undertime, subject to the provisions on Undertime. (SGD.) FRANCISCO T. DUQUE III, MD, MSc Chairman CSC RESOLUTION NO. 101358 RE : Policy on Half Day Absence WHEREAS, Section 1, Article XI of the 1987 Constitution, states that "Public officers and employees must at all times be accountable to the people, serve them with utmost responsibility, integrity, loyalty, and efficiency, act with patriotism and justice, and lead modest lives"; DSTCIa WHEREAS, part of such accountability, responsibility and efficiency of public officers and employees is the observance of the prescribed eight-hour work schedule in a given working day or 40-hour work per week; WHEREAS, being absent for half a day results in failure of an officer or employee to observe the eight-hour work in a day; WHEREAS, in the case of Yadao-Guno, Carmelita P. (CSC Resolution No. 00-0970 dated April 7, 2000) , the Commission ruled that "half-day absence is incurred when an officer or employee does not report for work either for the whole morning or the whole afternoon"; WHEREAS, the Civil Service Law, Rules and Regulations are silent as to what constitute half day absence; WHEREAS, there is a need to define how an officer or employee may be held administratively liable for his/her half day absences; NOW, THEREFORE, the Civil Service Commission, being the central human resource institution of the government, resolves to promulgate the following guidelines on Half Day Absence, as follows: 1. Any officer or employee who is absent in the morning is considered to be tardy and is subject to the provisions on Habitual Tardiness; and 2. Any officer or employee who is absent in the afternoon is considered to have incurred undertime, subject to the provisions on Undertime. RESOLVED FURTHER, that these guidelines shall be prospective in application and shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in a newspaper of general circulation. Quezon City, July 6, 2010. (SGD.) FRANCISCO T. DUQUE III Chairman (SGD.) CESAR D. BUENAFLOR Commissioner (SGD.) MARY ANN Z. FERNANDEZ-MENDOZA Commissioner Attested by: (SGD.) DOLORES B. BONIFACIO Director IV Commission Secretariat and Liaison Office Footnotes * CSC Res. No. 10-1358 was published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on July 28, 2010.