QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 670)
The purpose of Executive Order No. 670 is to implement Presidential Decree No. 1726 by instituting an integrated compensation scheme for lawyers in the Ministry of Justice and related offices, including salary rate adjustments according to available funds.
All lawyer positions with titles peculiar to the Ministry of Justice in the National Prosecution Service, Legal Staff, Technical Staff, the Office of the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, commissions, boards, bureaus, offices under the Ministry of Justice, and positions of NBI agents are covered.
For positions under the Career Executive Service, salary increases cannot exceed the maximum of their respective ranks as provided by law, and the salary of a position cannot be increased beyond one salary step below that of the position immediately above it in the organizational hierarchy.
A twenty percent (20%) increase of the actual basic salary as of December 31, 1980, subject to the availability of funds and with certain caps as provided in the Order.
The salary increase shall not exceed the salary rates provided in Presidential Decree No. 1726 or one step below the adjusted salary of the position immediately above it in the organizational hierarchy.
The Ministry of the Budget is tasked with examining and reviewing these to ensure uniformity in titles and designations, and it retains its power to classify positions and fix compensation under P.D. No. 985, as amended.
The Ministry of the Budget has the inherent power to classify positions and fix compensation in the National Government and to ensure uniformity in titles and organizational hierarchy despite this Order.
The salary increases will be charged against salary lapses, personal services, maintenance and operating expenses savings in appropriations of commissions, bureaus, offices, and boards under the Ministry of Justice, and excess income of the Land Registration Commission.
The salary increases take effect on January 1, 1981.
The Ministry of the Budget is authorized to formulate and issue the procedures, rules, and regulations needed to carry out the Executive Order.