Staggered Work Hours in Metro Manila

General Order No. 30 is issued to achieve the speedy and smooth movement of people, goods and services on streets, roads, and highways in Metropolitan Manila.
The order requires traffic management by regulating, directing, and controlling movement of people, goods, and services during any given period of time at any given point of any road network.
The order is intended to revise working time schedules to match restrictions on public use of highway facilities.
The order mandates staggered schedules to fully utilize constricted highway facilities within the 24-hour day period, eliminating build-up of traffic congestion and formation of choke points, and ensuring smooth flow of traffic.
The order is also intended to distribute and spread out scarce national capabilities to meet demands for public transport and simultaneous competing demands for water, power and other resources, with the least inconvenience to the general population.

Industries, factories, plants must follow the staggered work-hour schedules set out in Item 1.
Public and private offices must follow the staggered work-hour schedules set out in Item 2.
Public and private schools at all levels must follow the class-time schedules set out in Item 3.
Commercial establishments must follow the operating-hours schedule set out in Item 4.
Establishments covered by the order must strictly observe the listed schedules within the territorial coverage specified in the order.

The staggered schedules remain enforced in the Cities of Pasay, Manila, Quezon City and Caloocan.
The schedules remain enforced in the Municipalities of Las Piñas, Parañaque, Makati, San Juan, Mandaluyong, Pasig, Marikina, Malabon and Navotas in the province of Rizal.
The schedules remain enforced in the Municipality of Valenzuela in the province of Bulacan.
The schedules continue for the duration of the national emergency or until otherwise ordered by the President or a duly designated representative.
The revised schedule takes effect on June 18, 1973 and applies except on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays.

Industries, factories, plants with one work shift must observe 5:00/6:00 A.M. to 2:00/3:00 P.M.
Industries, factories, plants with two work shifts must observe First Shift: 6:00 A.M. to 2:30 P.M. and Second Shift: 2:30 P.M. to 11:00 P.M.
Industries, factories, plants with three work shifts must observe First Shift: 6:00 A.M. to 2:30 P.M., Second Shift: 2:30 P.M. to 10:00 P.M., and Third Shift: 10:00 P.M. to 6:00 A.M.
Public and private offices must observe First Shift: 7:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. and Second Shift: 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.
Public and private schools at all levels must observe: Morning Classes: 7:00/8:00 A.M. to 12:00 noon, Afternoon Classes: 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M./5:00 P.M., and Evening Classes: 4:00/5:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.

Commercial establishments must observe operating hours of 10:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M.
Heads of government instrumentalities and private agencies affected must immediately prescribe necessary regulations for effective implementation, including revised work schedules consistent with the order.
Heads of the affected instrumentalities and agencies must furnish the authorities charged with enforcement with copies of the regulations and revised work schedules.
For public and private offices, the shifts must be established with half of the workforce on the first shift and the other half in the next shift.
The shift schedule prescriptions must enable effective implementation of the order’s staggered working-hour system.

The order does not apply to military and other government agency or relief and rehabilitation operations.
The order does not apply to public and private markets, food terminals, supermarkets, groceries, food stalls, restaurants, and other eating places, and slaughterhouses.
The order does not apply to hospitals, medical and dental clinics and drug stores.
The order does not apply to banking institutions covered by Presidential Decree No. 71.
The order does not apply to public transport utilities, media communications and security agencies.
The order does not apply to fire departments and all law enforcement agencies.
The order does not apply to amusement places.
The order does not apply to churches, cemeteries, funeral parlors and related establishments.

The Secretary of Labor must enforce the provisions of the order insofar as the private sector is concerned.
The Executive Secretary must enforce the provisions of the order for government offices.
The Secretary of Labor and the Executive Secretary must submit periodic reports on implementation.
Enforcement is carried out in coordination with the submission of prescribed regulations and revised work schedules by heads of affected instrumentalities and private agencies.

All laws, executive orders, rules and regulations, or parts thereof that are inconsistent with General Order No. 30 are repealed and/or modified accordingly.
The order’s continued enforcement lasts for the duration of the national emergency or until otherwise ordered by the President or a duly designated representative.