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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1678
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1678 -
PROVIDING FOR A PROVISIONAL MANDATORY EMERGENCY LIVING ALLOWANCE OF
P2.00 A DAY FOR NON-AGRICULTURAL WORKERS AND P1.50 A DAY FOR
AGRICULTURAL WORKERS
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WHEREAS,
it is the policy of the government under the New Society to protect
workers from the effects of inflation to prevent erosion of real wages
and sustained their employment; and chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the government to act promptly to meet
this crisis provisionally without prejudice to the convening of a
National Tripartite Conference later on to review the price-wage
adjustment issues.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President and Prime Minister,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution of the
Republic of the Philippines, and upon the urgent recommendation of the
Minister of Labor and the Cabinet Standing Committee, hereby
decree: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 1. All private employers shall pay their
employees whose wage or salary is not more than P1,500.00 a month an
additional mandatory living allowance of P2.00 a day for
non-agricultural workers and P1.50 a day for agricultural workers.
Section 2. The Minister of Labor shall convene a
National Tripartite Conference not later than the last week of April
1980 for the purpose of evaluating the price and wage situation.
Section 3. Nothing in this Decree shall be construed
as constraining employers and workers organizations from taking efforts
to adjust wages and allowances over and above the statutory minimum
according to their respective means.
Section 4. In the case of temporarily distressed or
dislocated enterprises or new enterprises, full or fifty per cent
exemptions from or deferment of, compliance may be granted by the Wage
Commission upon joint representation of labor and management.
Section 5. Employers who have given increases in
wages and/or allowances of at least P2.00 a day for non-agricultural
workers or P1.50 a day for agricultural workers on or after February 8,
1980, whether granted unilaterally or by collective agreement, shall be
deemed to have complied with this Decree. Those who have given less
than P2.00 or P1.50, as the case may be, a day shall pay the difference.
Section 6. The Minister of Labor shall promulgate
rules and regulations to implement this Decree.
Section 7. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 20th day of February, in the year 1980.
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