Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday expressed his opposition to the proposed measure that seeks to declare June 21 of every year as a special non-working holiday in Tagaytay City.
Drilon said he strongly opposes the imposition of a special non-working holiday in Tagaytay City as it would deprive daily paid workers income because there’s no work.
“We are looking at this at an objective view of our economy and the effects of non-working holidays on the loss of income of our daily paid workers and the additional burden in case our workers are required to work on the part of the employers, which will affect the competitiveness of these enterprises,” Drilon explained during the Senate’s deliberation on House Bill No. 5682.
Furthermore, Tolentino said passage of the bill into law would boost Tagaytay City’s pride as a locality: “Our unique identity has yet to be explained, why we are there, why we are created and we believed that a special holiday is deeply intertwined with our identity.”