An Act Providing for Twelve, Instead of Eight Regional Offices for the Department of Labor, and Appropriating Funds Therefor

REPUBLIC ACT No. 2646

An Act Providing for Twelve, Instead of Eight Regional Offices for the Department of Labor, and Appropriating Funds Therefor

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

Section 1. The provisions of Reorganization Plan No. 53-A on Field Operations to the contrary notwithstanding, the Department of Labor is hereby authorized to regionalize its field activities in accordance with the following pattern which provides for twelve regions:

Section 2. The organizational structure of each regional office to be established in conformity with the regionalization provided in Section one hereof, for the purpose of bringing the present number of twelve regional offices, shall follow the pattern provided in the executive order implementing Reorganization Plan No. 20-A on Labor.

The Secretary of Labor is hereby authorized to reallocate personnel as he deems necessary: Provided, However, That there shall be at least one hearing officer and one clerk in every province.

Section 3. For the purpose of this Act, there is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred fifty thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in addition to the sum already appropriated for Field Services of the Department of Labor, for salaries and wages of personnel, traveling and other operating expenses and for the purchase of office equipment: Provided, That pending the release of funds therein appropriated, the Secretary of Labor may, as the exigencies of the service so require, establish the additional regional offices herein contemplated, necessary personnel to be provided by designation and reassignment of present personnel of the Department of Labor.

Section 4. All Acts, executive orders, and regulations or parts thereof inconsistent herewith are amended and/or repealed.

Section 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 18, 1960.