Ever been by a troublesome breakup and did not really feel effectively sufficient to undergo a full 24 hours, a lot much less do your greatest work?
Cebu Century Plaza Hotel will get it. Since January 2023, the lodge has been providing 5 paid breakup leaves for its broken-hearted staff.
Its CEO Ricardo Dublado got here up with the concept primarily based on his private experiences of adverse breakups after which having to go to work. In reality, he skilled one pretty just lately in 2018.
“Ako mismo galing po ako sa isang breakup o bad relationships, and for sure, affected ‘yung work ko,” he advised GMA News Online.
“It comes from my personal experience po kasi ako po mismo, I’ve been through a lot of bad relationships tapos nagdu-duty po ako na medyo narag ako o lutang so it’s something that na-experience ko na dati.
“I do not need na ma-experience ng mga employees ko kasi for positive, ‘di sila productive sa mga trabaho nila so sayang din ‘yung araw,” he added.
According to Dublado, even employees on their probationary period can avail of the paid breakup leaves from day 1, but the leaves expire every year so they and regular employees have to consume all five leaves in one year.
“We consider kasi the therapeutic interval of a damaged coronary heart is 5 days,” he explained, saying in jest that the estimate is “primarily based from expertise po.”
Employees can have another five paid breakup leaves each year, provided that the breakup is with a different person. The breakup leaves are not convertible to cash.
Probationary hotel employees also get one birthday leave with P2,000 cash and a birthday cake.
Upon regularization, they also receive five vacation leaves and five sick leaves as well as 90 days maternity leave and seven days paternity leave. Only sick leaves are convertible to cash.
What’s more, the breakup leave also comes with a facial beauty package which includes one facial and one body scrub with the hotel’s partner beauty clinic, Skin 911. It can be availed at any branch in Cebu and the employee’s local province, if available.
Dublado already helped one male employee take his paid breakup leave just last February 6. Dublado said he is Facebook friends with all of his employees, and one day, he noticed the said employee’s Facebook post.
“Napo-post siya ng mga heartbreak,” said Dublado, who added the employee was mentioning something along the lines of self-harm.
“Kaya we requested HR to strategy the employees member,” said Dublado.
As of this writing, the employee is currently completing his five-day paid breakup leave, which will conclude on February 10.
“I all the time worth psychological well being,” he added, also saying, “Pinahalagaan ko talaga ‘yung tao kasi they give you the results you want e. ‘Yung success mo, galing din ‘yun sa tao mo.”
As for Dublado, he found love a year after that bad breakup in 2018.
Of his current partner, Dublado said that back in 2019, “he despatched me a message, saying, ‘Hi.'”
“Before replying to his message, in fact, inaccess ko ‘yung profile pic nya, ‘yung mga photos. Gwapo e. Nag-verify na rin ko,” he said.
He and his current partner celebrated their fourth anniversary of when they said “I really like you” to each other just last February 7, 2023.
For anyone going through a breakup, Dublado advised, “Look for somebody to speak with. You can go to your folks or household.”
That’s also what Dublado said helped him whenever he had bad breakups. “I simply talked to my pals,” he said, adding, “Gusto ko lang could kausap.”
To those experiencing breakups, he added, “Dadating ‘yung araw tatawanan nila ‘yan.”
For any comfortable couple, the lodge may have a Valentine’s Day set menu and shortly, a February promo on their Facebook web page for an opportunity to win particular prizes.
The price range financial system lodge, which opened in 1998, is PWD-friendly and recognized for its strategic location within the coronary heart of uptown Cebu. It is close to St. Theresa’s College and 4 of Cebu’s largest hospitals. — LA, GMA Integrated News
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