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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS
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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 223
TO
: The Secretary of Labor
In order to insure the implementation of the Labor Code on the date of
its effectivity on November 1, 1974, you are hereby directed to
immediately undertake and effect the following measures:
1.
Organize the new offices created under the Labor
Code and such other administrative entities authorized under the Code
and the Integrated Reorganization Plan as are necessary to carry out
effectively the programs and activities arising from the implementation
of the Code, including the immediate recruitment and appointment of
essential officials and personnel.
2. Prepare for
the approval of the Office of the
President, the budget estimates of the new offices which shall be drawn
from the authorized appropriations of the Department of Labor for the
current fiscal year and from the unexpended funds of the Court of
Industrial Relations. In this connection, the Budget Commission is
directed to extend such assistance as may be necessary to the
Department of Labor and to give priority of action on the budget
estimates submitted to it for consideration. Bureaus, offices, services
and other entities in the Department of Labor Code whose functions and
structures have been aligned in accordance with the Integrated
Reorganization Plan and the Labor Code and whose budgets are already
incorporated in Presidential Decree No. 503, should immediately be
staffed and commence operations.
3. Submit for
my consideration a list of candidates
for presidential appointment to positions provided under Presidential
Decree No. 503, as well as to the following key positions in the new
offices created under the Labor Code.
a.
Nation Labor Relations Commission
1)
Chairman
2) Two members
representing the public
3) Two members
representing the employers
4) Two members
representing the workers
b. Overseas Employment Development Board
1)
Executive Director
c.
National Seamen Board
1)
Executive Director
Upon the issuance of the corresponding appointments, the Commission proper (NLRC) and the two Boards are deemed constituted, and the members thereof may enter upon their respective duties and take such steps as may be necessary as a body to place their organizations on an operational basis by November 1, 1974.
4. Take such other measures as may be necessary to effect the smooth transfer of all unexpended fund, properties, equipment, records of offices abolished under the Labor Code to the appropriate entities of the Department of Labor, including authorizing the holdover officials involved in such transfer until the same is completely effected.
Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.
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