To say that I am disappointed over the recent special holiday declaration in the Philippines will be an understatement. I am terribly disappointed as a matter of fact.
I have no problem if the President wishes to sympathize with the mourning of all the Iglesia ni Kristo for the loss of their much loved Ka Erdy Manalo. I am a non-Iglesia ni Kristo but I also offered a prayer for the loss of a great man of God.
What I am really disappointed about is that the declaration was made in such a very late hour of Friday giving the management team of each company a dillema on how to communicate it to their people. And to top it all, come Saturday another declaration was made to annouced that BPOs and Electronics industry were excluded due to the request of DTI Secretary Peter Favila.
Since when do we allow one industry to be exempted to a Special Non-Working Holiday declaration. Will it not make a precedent that in the future any industry will also do the same? What’s going on in the mind of our government? Who ever made that decision should have lifted it to all as the goverment sometimes do that (announcing a special non-working holiday pero may pasok), rather than excluding a certain industry.
Simply put, it was an insane declaration of a special non-working holiday! Another Malacanang booboo!
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