Before anything else, I decided to post this topic under this blog because I believe non-working holidays is very much associated with this blog's title, vacation grande. That is self-explanatory. Don't you agree?
Anyway, back to my question, is May 11, a day after the May 10 elections, a non-working holiday in the Philippines? As of this writing, there is no news, whether online, print, or tv, that May 11 had already been declared as a non-working holiday. However, the Sunstar Network Online reported yesterday that "Malacañang cannot report as of Thursday if May 11 will be declared as holiday".
Accordingly, they have yet to receive a formal suggestion/proposal for extending the May 10 non-working holiday to another day, or a day after the elections. Why wait for that "formal" suggestion/proposal?
In my opinion, declaring May 11 as a non-working holiday would be what GMA administration could give as its "last gift" to workers like me. Non-wage benefits such as this would be greatly appreciated by the labor sector.
But of course, my opinion doesn't matter to all. Who am I anyway? Well, what I want right now, and I'm sure that is also the clamor of many, is that May 11 be simply declared as a non-working holiday. :)
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