THE Civil Service Commission (CSC) is exploring the possible grant of mental health leave as a benefit for government employees.
“We at the commission are discussing mental health leave right now,” CSC Chairman Karlo Alexei Nograles told a House budget hearing Tuesday.
“It’s one of the possible leaves that we are exploring over and above the different leaves that government workers can avail themselves of,” he said.
CSC Chairman Karlo Alexei Nograles
Nograles was responding to a mental health-related question from Marikina 2nd District Rep. Stella Luz Quimbo, who is a vice chairman of the House committee.
Nograles said that currently, sick leave could be used “but what we are trying to do right now is come up with [mental health leave]… in addition to, over and above, sick leave.”
Also during the meeting with the House committee on Tuesday, Nograles said the CSC had, in 2020, issued the mental health program guidelines for the public sector through Memorandum Circular 4.
“So this is something that we continue to advocate for and teach in the different government agencies,” he said.
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