Extension Of Enhanced Community Quarantine In The Philippines.

ECQ

(allowed to work or operate with a skeleton workforce unless a different operational capacity is provided)

GCQ

• Government agencies and instrumentalities;

• Capital markets, including but not limited to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Securities and Exchange Commission, Philippine Stock Exchange, Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corporation, Philippine Securities Settlement Corporation, and Philippine Depository and Trust Corporation;

• Officials and employees of diplomatic missions and international organizations accredited by the Department of Foreign Affairs (“DFA”) whenever performing diplomatic functions and subject to DFA guidelines;

• Industries involved in agriculture, forestry, and fishery and their workers, and other components of food value chain shall be allowed to operate at full capacity;

• Private establishments and their employees involved in the provision of essential goods and services, such as food and medicine;

• Manufacturing and processing plants of essential goods and products (they may be allowed to operate at a maximum of 50% of their respective workforce);

• Delivery services;

• Banks, money transfer services, microfinance institutions, excluding pawnshops not performing money transfer, and credit cooperatives;

• Power, energy, water, information technology and telecommunications supplies and facilities;

• Energy companies;

• Telecommunications companies, internet service providers, cable television providers;

• Business process outsourcing (“BPO”) establishments and export-oriented business with work-from-home, on-site or near-site accommodations, or point-to-point shuttling arrangements;

• Airline and aircraft maintenance employees;

• Media establishments (at a maximum operational capacity of 50% of total permanent staff component);

• Construction workers accredited by the Department of Public Works and Highways to work on facilities identified for purposes of quarantine and isolation facilities;

• Manufacturing companies and suppliers of equipment or products necessary to perform construction works;

• Workers accredited by the Department of Transportation to work on utility relocation works and specified limited works across thirteen railway projects;

• Employees of the Philippine Postal Corporation at a capacity necessary to maintain the prompt delivery of services to its clients;

• Philippine Statistics Authority  at a capacity necessary to conduct data gathering and survey activities related to COVID-19 and the registration and implementation of the national ID system;

• Funeral and embalming services;

• Humanitarian assistance from civil society organizations, non-government organizations and United Nations-Humanitarian Country Teams;

• Pastors, priests, imams or such other religious ministers whose movement shall be related to the conduct of necrological or funeral services;

• Veterinary services; and

• Security personnel.

Category I industries are allowed to operate at full capacity:

• Agriculture, fishery and forestry;

• Food manufacturing and food supply chain businesses, including supermarkets, grocery stores, and food delivery services;

• Health-related establishments;

• Logistics sector;

• Information technology and telecommunication companies; and

• Media

Category II industries are allowed to operate at anywhere between 50% up to full capacity, without prejudice to work-from-home and other alternative work arrangements:

• Mining;

• Manufacturing, export-oriented, and electronic commerce companies;

• Delivery, repair and maintenance and housing and office services

Category III industries are also allowed to operate at anywhere between 50% up to full capacity, without prejudice to work-from-home and other alternative work arrangements:

• Financial services,

• BPOs;

• Legal and accounting and auditing services;

• Professional, scientific, technical and other non-leisure services; and

• Barber shops, salon and other personal care services

Other guidelines:

• Work in government offices may be at full operational capacity or under alternative work arrangement;

• Accredited diplomatic missions and international organizations may be at 50% operational capacity;

• Limited operations in malls and shopping centers shall be allowed, except leisure establishments and services shall continue to be closed;

• Amusement, gaming, fitness establishments, and tourism industries (or Category IV industries) may not operate; and

• The Department of Trade and Industry will issue a separate document specifying the industries under each category.