QuestionsQuestions (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1426)
To grant an emergency monthly incentive allowance to lawyers in the Bureau of Agrarian Legal Assistance (BALA) and in the DAR regional and field offices, aiming to improve efficiency and speed in the agrarian reform program by retaining and attracting lawyers.
All lawyers in BALA and in the regional and field offices of the Department of Agrarian Reform holding regular positions.
The decree provides different monthly incentive allowances per position group (Group A to Group E), with amounts indicated for the 1st Step and additional amounts for the 2nd Step(s) depending on the group.
Group A.
Legal Officer IV and Senior Research Attorney.
Trial Attorney III and Senior Legal Officer.
Chief Legal Officer, Trial Attorney IV, and Chief Research Attorney.
Assistant Director (Group E listing) and Director; the decree shows different amounts for Assistant Director and Director.
It covers regular and support personnel of BALA assigned in the Central Office, as well as other DAR lawyers performing supportive legal services assigned elsewhere, granting them 50% of the corresponding incentive allowances by CCPC salary range/CESO rank.
Fifty percent (50%) of the corresponding monthly rate provided for in Group A.
Section 3 states they shall continue to enjoy whatever allowances they are entitled to receive under the CES simultaneously with the allowances provided by PD 1426.
The Secretary of Agrarian Reform, through the recommendation of the BALA Director, shall promulgate the rules and regulations for implementation.
Three Million Seven Hundred Twenty-One and 200/00 Pesos (P 3,721.200.00).
From the salary savings of the Department of Agrarian Reform.
January 1, 1978.
All laws, decrees, executive orders, rules and regulations, or parts thereof inconsistent with PD 1426 are repealed, amended, or modified accordingly.
That some lawyers left or intended to leave due to low salaries, causing unfilled lawyer positions and slowing the disposition of agrarian cases.