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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 457 - FIXING
THE COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS OF THE REGIONAL TRIPARTITE WAGES AND
PRODUCTIVITY BOARDS
WHEREAS,
Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards (Regional Boards)
have been created in all the country’s regions by virtue of Republic
Act No. 6727, otherwise known as the Wage Rationalization Act;
WHEREAS, the Regional Boards are charged with the determination and
fixing of minimum wage rates applicable in their respective regions,
provinces, and industries therein, a function which is a vital and
integral component of the national wage and income policy;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Article 121 of the Labor Code, as amended by
Republic Act No. 6727, the members of the National Wages and
Productivity Commission (Commission) representing Labor and Management
are entitled to the same rank, emoluments, allowances and other
benefits as those prescribed by law for labor and management
representatives in the Employees Compensation Commission (ECC);
however, the law is silent on the emoluments or compensation of members
of the Regional Boards;
WHEREAS, it is not in the spirit of the law that the services rendered
by the members of the Regional Boards should be uncompensated;
certainly there is no perceivable legislative intention to exclude the
members of the Regional Boards from entitlement to the same
compensation as members of the Commission proper;
WHEREAS, under Republic Act No. 6758, otherwise known as the
“Compensation and Position Classification Act of 1989,” the Department
of Budget and Management is empowered and mandated “to establish and
administer a unified Compensation and Position Classification System,”
and said Act declares it the policy of the State (Sec. 2) “to provide
equal pay for substantially equal work”;
WHEREAS, both the Secretary of Labor and Employment and the Secretary
of Budget and Management have recommended to the President the payment
of compensation to the members of the Regional Boards, “considering the
equal degree of responsibility, sensitivity and the critical nature of
their tasks” and “considering the crucial role of the Regional Boards
in the determination and fixing of minimum wage rates applicable in
their respective regions”;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:
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DONE in the City of Manila,
this 7th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety-one.
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