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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS
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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 368
TO
: The Secretary of Labor
The Secretary of National Defense
The Secretary of Justice
The Solicitor General
Listing vital industries or companies or firms for purposes of PD 823 as amended.
For the guidance of workers and employees, some of whom have been led into filing notices of strikes and lockouts even in vital industries, you are hereby instructed to consider the following as vital industries and companies of firms under PD 823 as amended:
1.
Public Utilities:
A.
Transportation:
1)
All land, air and water companies or firms engaged
in passenger, freight or tourist transport;
2) All
brokerage, arrastre, warehousing companies or
firms;
B. Communications:
1)
Wire or wireless telecommunications such as
telephone, telegraph, telex, and cable companies or firms;
2) Radio and
television companies or firms;
3) Print Media
companies;
4) Postal and
messengerial service companies;
C. Companies engaged in electric, light, gas, steam and water power generation and distribution and sanitary service companies;
D. Other Public Utilities:
1)
Ice and Refrigeration plants
2. Companies or firms engaged in the manufacture or processing of the following essential commodities:
A.
Animal feeds
B. Cement
C. Chemicals
and fertilizers
D. Drugs and
medicines
E. Flour
F. Products
which are classified as essential
commodities in the list of National Economic and Development Authority
except the following: rice, corn, some basic cuts of meat, cooking oil,
laundry soap, lumber and plywood, galvanized iron sheets, writing pads
and notebooks.
G. Iron,
steel, copper, tin plates and other basic
mineral products;
H. Milk
I. Newsprint
J. Tires
K. Sugar
L. Textile and
garments
4. Companies engaged in the production and processing of products for export which are holders of Central Bank of Investment Certificate of Export Orientation, including hotels and restaurants classified as three (3), four (4) or five (5) star by the Department of Tourism;
5. Companies engaged in exploration, development, mining, smelting or refining of coal, oil, iron, copper, gold, and other minerals;
6. Companies or firms engaged in banking, including;
A.
Commercial Banks
B. Savings
Banks
C. Development
Banks
D. Investment
Banks
E. Rural Banks
F. Savings and
Loans Associations
G. Cooperative
Banks
H. Credit
Unions
7. Companies or firms which are actually engaged in government infra-structure projects and in activities covered by Defense contracts;
8. Hospitals as defined in Sec. 2, Rule 1-A, Book III of the Rules and Regulations Implementing the Labor Code of the Philippines;
9. Schools and Colleges duly recognized by the Government.
The Secretary of Labor include in/or exclude from the above list any industry, firm, or company as the national interest, national security, or general welfare may require.
Done in the City of Manila, this 26th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.
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