Local businesses adjust work schedules amid transport strike

SOME business establishments in Bacolod City and other localities in Negros Occidental are adjusting the work schedules of their employees Monday, September 30, due to the nationwide transport strike.

Frank Carbon, chief executive officer of Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), said they have to adjust the schedules of the workers in order to accommodate the disruption and to continue serving customers.

Carbon said member-employers of MBCCI allow workers to come late or report to duty early, and to be flexible to meet the demand.

"We can practice 'flexitime' so they could work in more or lesser than the required number of hours," he said, adding that labor laws are suspended to address the exigencies but always to the favor of the workers.

Major transport groups in Negros Occidental earlier projected a 95 percent paralysis on public utility vehicles (PUV) in the province during the transport strike.

In a joint statement issued by the Sentrong Samahan ng Tsuper at Operators (SSTONE)-Negros and Federation Bacolod City Drivers Associations (Febacda), the protest stemmed over the government's Public utility vehicles (PUV) modernization program up for implementation in July 2020.

As this developed, the Bacolod City Government, through Executive Order No. 28 Series of 2019, declared the suspension of classes in all levels for both public and private schools in the city.

The order stated that it "is to ensure the safety and convenience of the students."

For the business sector, the transport strike will result in lower sales among the establishments.

Carbon said less movement means less customers.

"Less customers would also mean less sales thus, we have to do a flexible time for the meantime," he added.

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