An Act Standardizing the Salaries of Heads of Bureaus and Offices and Other Officials Under the Department of Labor

REPUBLIC ACT No. 5209

An Act Standardizing the Salaries of Heads of Bureaus and Offices and Other Officials Under the Department of Labor

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. Any provision of law, executive order, rule or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, the standardized salaries for heads of bureaus and offices and other officials under the Department of Labor are hereby fixed as follows:

Section 2. Heads of Bureaus and offices shall receive equal travelling and representation allowances to be paid out of the savings of their respective bureaus and offices.

Section 3. In order to carry out the provisions of this Act, the sum of two hundred thousand pesos or so much thereof as is necessary is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, or from any savings of the Department of Labor to cover salary differentials from July one, nineteen hundred sixty seven to June thirty, nineteen hundred sixty-eight. Thereafter, the said sum shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

Section 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 15, 1968.