Letter of Instructions No. 383

[ LETTER OF INSTRUCTION NO. 383, March 15, 1976 ]

TREATMENT OF EMPLOYEES WITHOUT AUTHORIZED POSITIONS IN P.D. NO. 733

TO: Commissioner of the Budget Chairman, Commission on Audit All Heads of Departments, Bureaus and Agencies of the Government and Government Owned and or Controlled Corporations

WHEREAS, there is a substantial number of employees in the personnel roster of various departments, agencies and certain government owned and or controlled corporations not included in the respective approved staffing patterns under the Integrated Reorganization Plan but are still being paid their salaries because of the suspension of the implementation of the reorganization of said offices;

WHEREAS, the situation creates an atmosphere of uncertainty contrary to the intents and purposes of the Integrated Reorganization Plan.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, do hereby order and direct:

1. That the respective agencies should not fill existing vacancies without giving preference to the said employees in the filling of existing vacancies from a master list of laid off personnel as required in LOI No. 77, dated May 25, 1973;

2. That no new employee should be hired by any Agency without a certification of the Chief of Office and attested by the Civil Service Commission to the effect that there are no qualified eligibles from the existing pool; and 3. That all employees not absorbed by December 31, 1976 be retired under existing retirement laws.

Done in the City of Manila, this 15th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines ANNEX "A" No. of Total Annual Department Employee Salaries Office of the President 324 P2,548,503 ................................................................................... Commission on Population 239 ................................................................... National Media Production Center 5 .......................................................Philippine Ports Authority 80 ..................................................................... Department of Agriculture 17 155,196 ............................................................................. Department of Finance (BIR only) 155 649,500 ................................................................. Department of Health 118 650,289 .................................................................................... Department of Justice 226 724,573 .................................................................................... Department of Local Government and Community Development 2 28,578 ..................................................................... Department of Labor (NMYC only) 3 10,270 ............................................................. Department of Natural Resources 12 44,484 .................................................................. Department of Public Works, Transportation and Communication 920 3,742,670 .............................................................................. Department of Social Welfare 136 511,196 ........................................................................ Department of Trade 66 418,913 ..................................................................................... Department of Education & Culture 1,223 5,360,870 ............................................................... National Science Development Board (FNRC only) 1 3,521 ....................................................................................... _________ _________ TOTAL 3,370 P14,848,963 ............................................................................................... Corporation-Agencies not Authorized in PD No. 738 Agricultural Credit Administration 8 P53,880 ................................................................... CEPOC Industries, Inc. 73 325,706 ................................................................................. Home Financing Commission 86 556,872 ......................................................................... _________ _________ Total 167 P936,458 ................................................................................................... _________ _________ GRAND TOTAL 3,370 p15,785,421 ................................................................................. _________ _________