CSC MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 47

: Officers and employees are required to render not less than eight hours a day or a total of forty hours a week, exclusive of lunch time.
: Heads of departments or agencies have the duty to require officers and employees under them to strictly observe prescribed office hours and record their attendance accordingly.
: Attendance should be recorded on the proper forms and, whenever possible, should be registered on the bundy clock.
: All heads of local government units, including governors, mayors, vice governors, and vice mayors, are enjoined to strictly implement the civil service rules on office hours.
: Sanggunian Secretaries and Heads of Departments in Local Government Units were noted as not observing prescribed office hours and not recording daily attendance properly.
: Such acts are a proper subject of administrative disciplinary actions.
: The en banc Resolution No. 93-4664 was promulgated on October 19, 1993.
: No, the prescribed office hours and this memorandum circular apply to all departments and agencies except those covered by special laws.
: It took effect immediately upon adoption on November 22, 1993.