Senate bill seeks to protect rest hours, prevent 'unli-work from home'

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MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Francis Tolentino has filed a bill proposing penalties on employers who intrude on workers' "rest hours" to prevent tasks and meetings from bleeding into personal time as many shift to work-from-home arrangements.

In the explanatory note to Senate Bill No. 2475, Tolentino said that remote work arrangements have helped work to continue amid precautions against the pandemic. He said, however, that "sometimes, technology and work-from-home arrangements distort the idea of work and home from the point of view of the employees."

He said that technology and the internet have made workers "virtually always at the beck and call of their employers" even beyond official work hours.

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