QuestionsQuestions (PROCLAMATION NO. 1056)
It declares Friday, 04 December 2020, as a special (non-working) day in the Province of Cebu and in the highly urbanized cities of Cebu City, Lapu-Lapu City, and Mandaue City.
Proclamation No. 1056 amends Proclamation No. 1053, which is dated 18 November 2020.
The proclamation is signed by Salvador C. Medialdea, Executive Secretary, by authority of the President, Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
Because 04 December 2020 will mark the 104th birth anniversary of Governor Sergio Osmeña Jr., and it is fitting that the people of Cebu and the named cities be given full opportunity to celebrate subject to public health measures.
He served as Governor of Cebu Province (1951–1959), Mayor of Cebu City (1959–1963), and was elected senator (1965–1971).
It states that celebrations are subject to community quarantine, social distancing, and other public health measures.
It generally designates that the day is non-working for those covered by applicable labor/public holiday rules, subject to existing laws and regulations on payment and exceptions for work that must be performed.
It was issued on 1 December 2020, and it declares 04 December 2020 (Friday) as the special (non-working) day.
Cebu City, Lapu-Lapu City, and Mandaue City.
To align the commemoration with COVID-era public health regulations and to indicate that permitted activities must comply with health protocols.
It cites that it is issued by the Executive Secretary ‘by authority of the President,’ making it an exercise of delegated presidential power to issue proclamations on matters like special non-working days.