{"id":2614,"date":"2016-12-15T01:41:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlp-law.com\/blog\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2020-05-23T23:26:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T15:26:32","slug":"proclamation-no-117-declaring-26-december-2016-and-2-january-2016-as-special-non-working-days-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/proclamation-no-117-declaring-26-december-2016-and-2-january-2016-as-special-non-working-days-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Proclamation No. 117: Declaring 26 December 2016 and 2 January 2016 as Special Non-Working Days in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MALACANAN PALACE<br \/>\nMANILA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">PROCLAMATION NO. 117<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DECLARING 26 DECEMBER 2016 (MONDAY) AND 2 JANUARY 2017 (MONDAY), AS SPECIAL (NON-WORKING) DAYS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, 25 December 2016 (Christmas Day) and 1 January 2017 (New Year&#8217;s Day) both fall on a Sunday and are regular holidays throughout the country;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, the declaration of 26 December 2016 and 2 January 2417, both falling on a Monday, as special (non-working) days will give the people full opportunity to celebrate the holidays with their families and loved ones;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, a longer weekend promotes domestic tourism and enables employers to plan their work schedules effectively and efficiently, resulting in improved productivity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOW, THEREFORE,<\/strong> I, MENARDO I. GUEVARRA, Acting Executive Secretary, by authority of the President, RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE, do hereby declare 26 Decbmber 2016 and 2 January 2017, both falling on a Monday, as special (non-working) days throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Labor and Employment is hereby directed to issue the appropriate circular to implement this Proclamation for the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>lN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.<\/p>\n<p>Done in the city of Manila, this 13th day of December, in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand and Sixteen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MALACANAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES PROCLAMATION NO. 117 DECLARING 26 DECEMBER 2016 (MONDAY) AND 2 JANUARY 2017 (MONDAY), AS SPECIAL (NON-WORKING) DAYS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[371],"tags":[83,624,395],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hr-and-labor","tag-holidays","tag-proclamation-no-117","tag-special-non-working-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}