HIGHER education institutions in areas under enhanced community quarantine can deploy a skeletal workforce, the Commission on Higher Education said.

CHED in an advisory said universities and colleges in areas with high number of Covid19 cases can assign workers on-site for essential services.

These are those in charge of payroll, salaries, and employee assistance, IT administrators, accounting staff, and security personnel, teachers and faculty who rely and depend on internet connectivity, personnel in engineering and technology laboratories, registrars and other academic administrators in charge of grades and assessment.

The commission said the deployment of  skeletal workforce “shall be subject to compliance with all applicable rules of the Department of Labor and Employment on work arrangements during ECQ, and relevant IATF [Inter-Agency Task Force] Guidelines on health and safety protocols.”

“As part of the government bureaucracy, SUCs [state universities and colleges] are expected to be fully operational, with a skeleton workforce on-site and the remainder under alternative work arrangements as approved by the head of agency,” it added.