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MANILA - The Department of Labor and Employment on Sunday assured regular employees they will still get their pay if, upon full utilization of their leaves, they are required to undergo quarantine for 14 days.

"'Pag pinag-quarantine ka ng employer mo, whether you have symptoms or not, at wala ka nang leave credits, it will be DOLE that will subsidize the employer," Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III told radio DZMM.

(If your employer asks you to go on quarantine, whether you have symptoms or not, and you've used up your leave credits, it will be DOLE that will subsidize the employer.)

The employee will have to present his employer's memorandum ordering him to take a 14-day quarantine due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Bello said.

The labor department, meantime, will provide emergency jobs, livelihood assistance, and skills training programs to those who will be displaced by the coronavirus disease outbreak.

Workers who will avail of emergency jobs will be paid minimum wage, according to Bello.

Employers have been urged to consider work-from-home arrangement for their staff after President Rodrigo Duterte placed Metro Manila under community quarantine from March 15 through April 14.

As of Saturday, there are 111 cases of COVID-19 in the Philippines, including 8 fatalities.