DepEd OKs flexi hours for non-teaching personnel

The Department of Education (DepEd) has announced the adoption of flexible working hours for its nonteaching personnel for the Central, Regional, and Schools Division Offices.

Education Secretary Leonor Briones, in Department Order No. 23 series of 2018 issued to Undersecretaries, Assistant Secretaries, Bureau and Service Directors, Regional Directors, Schools Division Superintendents, and Public Elementary and Secondary School Heads, announced that the Department will adopt flexible working hours for non- teaching personnel pursuant to Section 6, Rule XVII of the Omnibus Rules Implementing Book V of the Administrative Code of 1987 and Memorandum Circular No. 14, s. 1989 of the Civil Service Commission.

Briones noted that this move is also “consistent with the administration’s agenda to expand the scope of employee welfare to respond to felt and reasonable needs of our personnel.”

In the issued DO dated May 10, 2018, Briones said that all DepEd officials and employees “shall render not less than eight (8) hours of work a day for five (5) days for a total of forty (40) hours a week, exclusive of time for lunch.”

This, she added, “shall not be reduced by the adoption of flexible working hours.”

“Flexible working hours shall apply to all non-teaching personnel in the Central, Regional, and Schools Division Offices,” Briones said.

Flexible working hours starts from 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and ends from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.