Celeste Cortesi. Image: Instagram/@celeste_cortesi Miss Universe Philippines 2022 Celeste Cortesi is one of the individuals who voiced her disapproval of Senate President Chiz Escudero’s suggestion of “reducing” local holidays, as she stressed that Filipino workers are already “overworked” and “underpaid.” The beauty queen took to X (formerly Twitter) to repost Escudero’s holiday remark and underscore that “company owners will not go bankrupt” if workers have the holidays that they deserve.
“Ummm, but most Filipino workers are overworked and underpaid. Can we not just give those holidays to them? That’s only a few days of break, and I’m pretty sure the rich company owners will not go bankrupt. Just saying,” she said.
In a separate post , Cortesi stressed that productivity can be seen if employees get proper treatment. “As a business owner myself, I think productivity happens if your employees are valued and appreciated, not overworked,” remarked the beauty queen. On Aug.
9, Escudero aired his sentiments that the Senate is eyeing limiting the approval of proposed local holidays to make the country “more competitive.” He later clarified in a follow-up interview that the Senate will not reduce the number of existing holidays in the country but will not only add more non-working holidays. “The Senate’s policy is not to reduce holidays—just not add to already several holidays and, instead, rationalize the existing holidays so that these wo.