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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 170 -
AUTHORIZING THE SUBSIDIZATION OF CERTAIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SALARY INCREASES OF DEVOLVED HEALTH WORKERS
MANDATED UNDER REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6758 (THE SALARY STANDARDIZATION LAW)
AS IMPLEMENTED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 164, AS AMENDED, AND UNDER
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7305 (THE MAGNA CARTA FOR PUBLIC HEALTH WORKERS)
WHEREAS, Republic Act No. 7305 otherwise
known as the Magna Carta for Public Health Workers stipulates that the
salary scales of public health workers whose salaries are appropriated
by local government units shall not be less than those provided for
public health workers of the National Government;
WHEREAS, the same Republic Act No. 7305 mandates that the amount
necessary to pay the difference between the salary rates received by
nationally-paid and locally-paid health workers of equivalent positions
shall be subsidized by the National Government;
WHEREAS, the said Republic Act No. 7305 furthermore entrusts to the
Secretary of Health the responsibility for estimating and programming
the budgetary requirement for the implementation of said Act in
consultation with the Secretary of Budget and Management and the
Congressional Commission on Health;
WHEREAS, the salary increases for public officials and employees have
been authorized under the Revised Compensation and Position
Classification System adopted by virtue of Joint Senate and House
Resolution No. 1, series of 1994, and enforced through Executive Order
No. 164, as amended;
WHEREAS, the amount appropriated under the 1994 General Appropriations
Act for the implementation of the magna carta benefits for the devolved
public health workers cannot cover the salary increases authorized
under said Revised Compensation and Position Classification System;
WHEREAS, the efficient and effective discharge of the health functions
and responsibilities devolved to local government units depends greatly
on the morale and social and economic well-being of the locally-paid
public health workers;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the
Philippines, by virtue of the power vested in me by law, upon the
recommendation of the Chairman of the Oversight Committee constituted
under Sec. 533 of Republic Act No. 7160 otherwise known as the Local
Government Code, do hereby order and direct:
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DONE in the City of Manila,
this 13th day of December, in the year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and
Ninety-Four.
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