Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 780)
The main purpose of Executive Order No. 780 is to authorize increases in salary for Solicitors and lawyers in the Office of the Solicitor General, aligning their pay with lawyers in the Ministry of Justice as per the salary rates under P.D. No. 1726.
The positions covered include Assistant Solicitor General, Solicitor VI, Solicitor V, Solicitor IV, Solicitor III, Solicitor II, Solicitor I, and Trial Attorneys of several grades.
Positions in the Office of the Solicitor General did not come under the operation of P.D. No. 1726, which applied to lawyers in the Ministry of Justice and its bureaus and offices.
The monthly salary rate for the Assistant Solicitor General is P55,536.
He exercised the powers vested in him by law as the President of the Philippines to order and direct the salary adjustments.
Funds are to be drawn from salary lapses and savings of the Office of the Solicitor General, with further augmentation from the Salary Adjustment Fund in the CY 1981 General Appropriations Act and budgetary reserves.
The order took effect on January 1, 1982.
The Ministry of the Budget is tasked with formulating and issuing the necessary rules and regulations.
There are 20 Trial Attorney positions listed with three salary grades: 7 Trial Attorneys at P32,184, 7 at P30,624, and 6 at P29,148.
It was signed as an Executive Order by President Ferdinand E. Marcos and promulgated in Manila on March 9, 1982, with Juan C. Tuvera as Presidential Executive Assistant.