{"id":6541,"date":"2020-05-18T12:17:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T12:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:09:33","slug":"philweb-employees-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philweb-employees-philippines","title":{"rendered":"PhilWeb extends forced leave for 184 employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The company said leave would now continue through to June 15, although this could be brought forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Philippines.- PhilWeb Corporation has announced a one month extension &#8216;forced leave&#8217; for 184 employees due to the on-going Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company previously put employees on a one month leave period from April 16 to &#8220;ensure adequate availability of resources when the company resumes its business operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its filing latest filing, the company said leave would now continue through to June 15, although this could be brought forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The filing said: &#8220;This effective period may be shortened depending on approvals from the relevant task force and regulatory agencies to resume business operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;PhilWeb is currently seeking clarification from the relevant government agencies on the resumption of operations in areas transitioning [from Enhanced Community Quarantine] to General Community Quarantine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company said leave would now continue through to June 15, although this could be brought forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"PhilWeb Corporation has announced a one-month extension of forced leave for 184 employees, now continuing until June 15, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and associated community quarantine measures in the Philippines. The company is actively seeking clarification from relevant government agencies regarding the resumption of business operations as areas transition from Enhanced to General Community Quarantine. This measure is intended to ensure adequate resource availability upon the eventual restart of commercial activities.","focusai_entities":"PhilWeb Corporation","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Clarification Timeline","query":"What specific criteria or approvals are the relevant Philippine task force and regulatory agencies requiring for iGaming operators like PhilWeb to resume business operations under General Community Quarantine?"},{"label":"Financial Impact Assessment","query":"What is the projected financial impact of this extended forced leave and operational delay on PhilWeb Corporation's Q2\/Q3 earnings, considering fixed costs and potential revenue loss?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,161,16333],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-6541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-daily-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6548,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions\/6548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}