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Law Creating POEA…
Ministry Offices
The Ministry shall have such ministry-wide regional offices as may be necessary, under the supervisions and control of the Office of the Minister, in accordance with Article I, Chapter III, Part II of the Integrated Reorganization Plan as amended. Each regional office shall be headed by a Regional Director who shall be assisted whenever necessary by an Assistant Regional Director. The Regional Director shall have supervision and control over the activities of the Ministry in the region, except as may be otherwise determined by the Minister.
The abolition of the Arbitration Branches, the Field Services Divisions, and the Labor Relations Divisions in the regional offices pursuant to Executive Order No. 591 shall be given effect, and their applicable appropriations, records, equipment and such personnel as may be necessary are transferred to the appropriate units as determined by the Minister.
Positions of Conciliators and Med-Arbiters which may be created under the new staffing patterns in the regional offices, as well as such positions in the Bureau of Labor Relations, shall have starting rates of compensation which shall be equivalent to two salary ranges below those of Arbiters in the National Labor Relations Commission. The Minister is authorized to effect from time to time such regional reassignment of Conciliators and Med-Arbiters as may be necessary in the interest of the service.
Overseas Offices of the Ministry
The Ministry shall have such offices overseas as will enable it to carry out its responsibilities effectively, subject to prior approval by the President on the establishment of each such office abroad. The Labor Attache or his equivalent shall have supervisions over all other personnel of the Minister as may be assigned to an embassy or other foreign service post overseas, including those of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration.
The Minister
The Minister shall have the authority to reorganize the internal structure of the various offices and units under the Ministry, as enumerated in Sections 6, 7, 8, 11, and 12 of this Executive Order.
The Ministry is hereby authorized to issue such orders, rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement the approval of the Office of Budget and Management is obtained relative to the new staffing pattern including appropriate salary rates, the organizational structure at divisional and lower levels, and the realignment of existing appropriations. The Minister may appoint qualified personnel of the abolished in the new staffing pattern, and those not so appointed are deemed laid off.
All Presidential appointees of the bureaus, offices, and other entities under the supervision and control of or under the administrative supervision of the Ministry are laid off, unless otherwise reappointed by the President; provided, that those who are Career Executive Service Officers may either be reappointed or reassigned by the President upon the recommendation of the Minister to other appropriate positions in the Ministry, or assigned to the Career Executive Service Board which shall endeavor to find appropriate placement for them in other ministries or agencies; provided, further, that those Career Executive Service Officers who have been assigned to the Career Executive Service Board shall continue to receive their salaries from any available and applicable funds; and provided, finally, that those who are not placed in appropriate positions within six months after their assignment to the Career Executive Service Board shall be similarly laid off.
All those who are laid off under the provisions of this Executive Order shall be entitled to all benefits and gratuities provided for under existing laws.
Except as may otherwise be determined by the Minister, all present incumbents of positions in the reorganized units of the Ministry shall continue to exercise their usual functions, duties, and responsibilities, pending the issuance of the appropriate implementing orders.
To carry out the provisions of this Executive Order such amount as may be necessary shall be made available to the Ministry from any applicable appropriation item, subject to the approval of the President upon recommendation of the Office of Budget and Management.
All laws, decrees, orders, proclamations, rules, regulations, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.
Any portion or provision of this Executive Order that may be declared unconstitutional shall not have the effect of nullifying the other provisions thereof, provided that such remaining portions can still stand and be given effect in their entirety to accomplish the objectives of this Executive Order.
This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila, this first day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-two.
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