By Erika Mae P. Sinaking, Reporter
REPEATED and often blanket suspensions of face-to-face classes and government work due to typhoons and heavy rains are causing economic losses beyond missed work and school days, with daily-wage earners, small businesses and students bearing much of the impact, analysts said.
Sergio R. Ortiz-Luis, Jr., president of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECoP), said blanket suspensions should be reconsidered because weather risks vary across locations.
ocus“We can’t keep doing blanket suspensions one after another,” he told BusinessWorld by telephone. “No formula can fit all, not all provinces, not all cities, not all barangays, not all schools. They have to find a better way to do it.”
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