600 CLI employees to undergo testing before resuming work

CEBU, Philippines — At least 600 employees of Cebu Landmasters Inc. (CLI) will be tested for COVID-19 as the company braces to go back to business.

“Testing all our employees is the beginning of the long road back to normalcy as Cebu Landmasters embrace the new normal. We want our teams to feel safe at work. Testing will also allow us to identify and assist those who turn out positive for COVID 19 but may not know it,” said CLI chairman Jose Soberano III in a statement.

The initial 600 employees are those working in Cebu City and its environs from CLI, its property management arm, and its first hotel property Citadines Cebu City. These workers will undergo testing to be conducted by a hospital accredited by the Department of Health.

Those in Bacolod, Davao, CDO, Iloilo, Bohol and Dumaguete will follow.

The listed company ensures social distancing and employees in their headquarters are on a skeletal arrangement while others continue to work from home to ensure that only up to 50 percent physically report to work.

All CLI offices throughout the region will undergo deep cleansing and misting prior to the return of work teams, and regularly thereafter. Thorough disinfection of all offices is also in place. All employees will be provided with N95 masks and undergo daily health checks. A company clinic with a nurse and a doctor that regularly visits is also part of the set up.

Company buses are also deployed to ensure employees’ safety as they report to work and go back to their homes.

According to Soberano, this new norm has been assisted by the digitization of the firm’s sales transactions. The move has allowed clients to seek, inquire and book for projects online and do payments online. Along with this is a sales promo to stretch buyers’ equity terms to make them lighter and more accessible to the economic and mid-market.

“We understand that having a stable and secure home is extremely important especially today. In CLI, we adjusted our terms to make it more accessible to our market. As a result, we are happy that we have continued the demand for our residential projects in this challenging time. One of our projects in CDO, Casa Mira Towers CDO, sold over 400 units in the month of May and now is sold out,” added Soberano.

In the meantime, around 50 percent of CLI projects remain under construction sustained by third-party workers whom the firm has supported financially with weekly allowances to extend support to their families.