Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City. | CDN file photo
In a statement released on their social media pages, the VSMMC administration said that the hazard pay was provided to workers who could not go to work on-site because they were under quarantine, oftentimes contracting the illness during their 2-week on-site duty days. VSMMC said that during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic on March 2020 when Cebu was placed under Enhanced Community Quarantine , their management adopted alternative working arrangements pursuant to the guidelines set by the Civil Service Commission .
All division and section heads have been given an overview of this mechanism by providing them with the methods to ensure that all employees can avail of this arrangement with a clear-cut set of deliverables.