The government's implementation of the "no vaccine, no ride" policy has loosened, according to the Associated Labor Union-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP), after pressure from groups to ease restrictions on workers.

According to ALU-TUCP spokesperson Alan Tanjusay, the first three days of the policy's implementation caused extreme inconcenience to workers, which he said was due to the implementers not being briefed properly.

"Mukhang ang problema dun sa aming assessment, ang problema ay doon sa nagpapatupad mukhang di na-briefing nang husto," Tanjusay told DZRH in an interview.

(The problem based on our assessment, the problem is on the implementers who were not briefed properly.)

(Pero after that it loosened. It’s good that [Secretary Silvestre Bello III] explained that employees going to work should be exempted.)

The "no vaccine, no ride" policy of the government saw backlash from several groups for reportedly discriminating on the unvaccinated. The ALU-TUCP also previously called it out for being problematic for some workers because it is causing them to pay extra just to reach their workplaces.

Bello later clarified, however, that unvaccinated workers reporting to workplaces are exempted from the regulation, as long as they present their work IDs or a certificate of employment to enforcers.