EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 615
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 615 - CREATING
A NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION
WHEREAS, the goal of raising the
living standard of the Filipino workingman and enhancing the viability
and competitiveness of Filipino enterprise urgently requires major
improvements in national productivity as the key to rising real wages
and national economic competitiveness vis-a-vis the whole
world;
WHEREAS, it is now essential that the Government launch a national
productivity movement that will fully utilize the initiative,
participation and cooperation of labor and management, particularly in
the industrial sector;
WHEREAS, there is need to gain a better knowledge of the close
relationship between productivity and wages and other economic factors
and their effects on industrial and agricultural development and the
national economy;
WHEREAS, it is necessary to create an agency to actualize a continuing
system of research and program development, to initiate actions
thereon, and to recognize performance in the field of productivity;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Republic of
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution,
and the authority vested in me by Presidential Decree No. 1416, do
hereby order and ordain:
Section 1. The National Productivity Commission,
hereinafter referred to as the Commission, is hereby created and
attached to the National Economic Development Authority.
Sec. 2. The Commission shall have the following
functions:
a)
To mobilize labor-management cooperation into a national productivity
movement;
b) To
undertake a continuous study of the factors that affect productivity
and determine the nature and extent of their influence on productivity
development;
c) To
formulate policies and programs to increase productivity and to
implement standardized productivity improvement programs for industry;
d) To
undertake and disseminate researchers and studies for the effective
development of programs and scheme on productivity improvements;
e) To assist
employers and workers to have a better understanding of the close
relationship between productivity and wages and other economic factors
and their effects to particular industries.
Sec. 3. In implementing its functions, the
Commission may call upon the assistance of any government or private
entity. Particularly, it shall establish the close coordination with
the National Wages Council, the Ministry of Labor and Employment, the
Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Agriculture.
Sec. 4. The Commission shall be composed of the
Minister of Labor and Employment and the Minister of Industry as
Co-Chairman, with the Minister of Economic Planning, Minister of
Agriculture, President of the Development Academy of the Philippines
and two representatives each from workers and employers organizations
who shall be appointed by the President to serve a term of three years,
upon recommendation of the Co-Chairmen as members. The Government
representatives in the Commission may designate their deputies in case
they cannot attend the meeting of the Commission.
Sec. 5. The Commission shall be assisted by a
Secretary to be headed by an Executive Director who shall be its Chief
operating officer.
Sec. 6. Upon the recommendation of the Commission,
the President shall appoint an Executive Director. The Commission shall
prescribe the qualifications of the Executive Director.
Sec. 7. The Chairman of the Commission shall
appoint the personnel necessary to perform its functions and to
determine their qualifications and compensations, subject to pertinent
civil service, compensation and budgetary laws.
Sec. 8. The Minister of the Budget shall
immediately make available such funds as may be adequate to meet the
operational requirements of the Commission for calendar year 1980.
Beginning, with calendar year 1981, an appropriate yearly fund
allotment to the Commission shall be included in the General
Appropriations Act.
Sec. 9. The Commission shall issue the appropriate
rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Executive
Order.
Sec. 10. This Executive Order shall take effect
immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 18th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty.