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    This document provides the legal basis for exempting certain city government employees, such as lawyers, from using biometrics to record attendance due to the nature of their work. It cites a Civil Service Commission memorandum and resolution allowing alternative attendance tracking methods when biometrics is not practical or poses service delivery problems. The DILG also recognizes that exemptions may be granted for personnel whose functions necessitate it. Since city lawyers are often outside the office attending hearings and meetings, recording attendance in a logbook monitored by staff is a more effective method than biometrics given their responsibilities require work outside normal hours.

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    This document provides the legal basis for exempting certain city government employees, such as lawyers, from using biometrics to record attendance due to the nature of their work. It cites a Civil Service Commission memorandum and resolution allowing alternative attendance tracking methods when biometrics is not practical or poses service delivery problems. The DILG also recognizes that exemptions may be granted for personnel whose functions necessitate it. Since city lawyers are often outside the office attending hearings and meetings, recording attendance in a logbook monitored by staff is a more effective method than biometrics given their responsibilities require work outside normal hours.

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    This document provides the legal basis for exempting certain city government employees, such as lawyers, from using biometrics to record attendance due to the nature of their work. It cites a Civil Service Commission memorandum and resolution allowing alternative attendance tracking methods when biometrics is not practical or poses service delivery problems. The DILG also recognizes that exemptions may be granted for personnel whose functions necessitate it. Since city lawyers are often outside the office attending hearings and meetings, recording attendance in a logbook monitored by staff is a more effective method than biometrics given their responsibilities require work outside normal hours.

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    This document provides the legal basis for exempting certain city government employees, such as lawyers, from using biometrics to record attendance due to the nature of their work. It cites a Civil Service Commission memorandum and resolution allowing alternative attendance tracking methods when biometrics is not practical or poses service delivery problems. The DILG also recognizes that exemptions may be granted for personnel whose functions necessitate it. Since city lawyers are often outside the office attending hearings and meetings, recording attendance in a logbook monitored by staff is a more effective method than biometrics given their responsibilities require work outside normal hours.

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    SUBJECT : LOGBOOK ATTENDANCE IN LIEU OF BIOMETRICS FOR

    CITY LAWYERS AND OTHER EMPLOYEES WHOSE


    NATURE OF FUNCTION WARRANTS BIOMETRICS
    EXEMPTION

    Date : June 25, 2018

    This has reference to the above-mentioned subject and the legal basis in support of the
    same.

    With regards to the recording of attendance of government officials and employees, the
    provision is stated in Item C of the Civil Service Commission MC No. 21, S. 1991 entitled
    “Policy on Government Working Hours for Government Officials and Employees”. To wit:

    “C. Use of Bundy Clock and Other Record of Attendance

    1. All officers and employees shall records their daily attendance on


    the proper form or, whenever possible, have them registered on the bundy
    clock. Any other means of recording attendance may be allowed provided
    their respective names and signatures as well as the time of their actual
    arrival to and departure from office are indicated, subject to verification.
    This include those serving on the field, that is, outside the office proper, x x
    x. The Record of Attendance which shall be kept in a conspicuous place,
    shall be in the custody of a responsible officer who shall monitor the
    arrival, departure of officials and employees.”

    In addition to the above, CSC issued Resolution No. 991077 dated May 21, 1999 in response
    to the request for bundy clock exemption of a certain Pangasinan Provincial Rural Health
    Physician as it posed problems in the effective delivery of service. Citing the same provision
    of the MC above, the said Resolution states:

    “The foregoing provision readily denote that while it is incumbent


    upon the head of the department or agency to require all subordinate
    officers and employees to maintain a daily record of attendance, the
    same need not be made only through a Bundy Clock. When
    reasonableness and practicality so dictate, the office may adopt such
    means other than the usual mode of punching the time card, to register
    the attendance of an employee as long as they are kept in the proper
    form.

    Hence, the request for exemption from the use of the bundy clock
    as a mode of registering attendance in the aforesaid Rural Health Unit
    is in consonance with the aforequoted provision and warranted by the
    civil service rules. Furthermore, this is in line with the policy of the
    Commission to humanize the Bureaucracy.”

    Lastly, none other than the DILG itself recognizes that certain employees may be exempted
    from using the Biometrics to record attendance. In its Circular No. 2017-8, Item 6, it states
    that “Request for Exemptions may be extended to some personnel supported with
    justifiable/tenable reasons that necessitate the grant of exemption due to the nature of
    their functions, roles and responsibilities”.
    Since the functions of city lawyers include being deployed outside of office very often
    (sometimes even outside NCR) to attend hearings, meetings, ocular inspections, etc., to
    represent the City Government of _______; and are required to work even after office
    hours and rest days, it would be impractical and counter-productive for them to register
    their attendance through the biometrics. It is in this regard that recording their attendance
    in a logbook following a standard form, to be kept by a responsible staff is the most
    effective and efficient method of logging their attendance.

    Thank you and we hope that we are able to shed light on this matter.

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