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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1120
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1120 -
GRANTING EMERGENCY INCENTIVE ALLOWANCE TO REGULAR PERSONNEL OF THE
BUREAU OF FOREST DEVELOPMENT AND PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR
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WHEREAS,
the government, fully conscious of the ever decreasing water supply for
power, agricultural and commercial uses; the threats of ecological
imbalance brought about by the fast-paced utilization of our forest
resources without adequate replenishment embarked on the Program for
Forest Ecosystem Management (PROFEM) under the leadership of the
President, through the Department of Natural Resources with its
Secretary as Executive Officer;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the agency principally charged with the implementation of said
program is the Bureau of Forest Development; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, many technical men had left and are leaving the Bureau of
Forest Development to join private firms offering higher pay and better
fringe benefits;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the Program for Forest Ecosystem Management (PROFEM) demands
that the Bureau of Forest Development should be able to retain the
services of its present corps of loyal and dedicated technical men and
support services personnel while at the same time, attract brilliant
and promising materials that could be turned out by our colleges and
schools of forestry;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, there is a need to intensify the protection of our forest
lands, develop and rehabilitate our critical watersheds and prevent
further squatting within the public forest, a job which calls for
vigilant and dedicated field men to be at their respective places of
assignments under all conditions;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, in order to successfully realize the objectives of the Program
for Forest Ecosystem Management (PROFEM) and the forestry policies and
objectives of the new Society under Presidential Decree No. 705 and
correlative Letters of Instructions, specially those delving on forest
protection, watershed rehabilitations, preventing the proliferation of
kaingin making; and in order to meet the high cost of living and to
enhance dedication to the service, it is necessary to augment the
salaries of all technical men and trained forestry workers as well as
the support services personnel in the regular force of the Bureau of
Forest Development in the form of monthly incentive allowances;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
decree and order:cralaw:red
Section 1. All technical personnel and other trained
forestry workers as well as the support services personnel in the
regular force who are assigned in the field offices of the Bureau of
Forest Development in the following category shall receive monthly
incentive allowances in accordance with salary grouping herein
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Monthly Incentive
Allowance not to
Position exceed
GROUP A R-32 to 41 P400.00
GROUP B R-42 to 49 500.00
GROUP C R-50 to 54 750.00
GROUP D R-55 to 60 1,000.00
GROUP E R-61 to 65 1,250.00
GROUP F R-66 and above 1,500.00
Section 2. All technical personnel and other trained
forestry workers, as well as the support services personnel who are
assigned in the Central Office of the Bureau of Forest Development
shall receive an amount not to exceed seventy-five per centum (75%) of
the preceding schedule.
Section 3. Personnel designated pursuant to Section
10 of P.D. 705, shall be entitled to the corresponding monthly
incentive allowance provided herein, based on the salary range of the
position to which he has been designated.
Section 4. The sum of Twenty Million Pesos
(P20,000,000.00) is hereby appropriated from the National Treasury out
of the unexpended appropriations or earnings of the Bureau of Forest
Development for the current calendar year. Thereafter, such amount as
may be necessary shall be included in the General Appropriations Decree
of the Bureau of Forest Development. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 5. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 18th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-seven.
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