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[ PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 661, February 25, 1975 ]

ADJUSTING THE SALARIES OF SOLICITORS AND TRIAL ATTORNEYS IN THE OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR GENERAL AND EXEMPTING PERSONNEL FROM WAPCO COVERAGE.

WHEREAS, litigation and other legal work handled by the Office of the Solicitor General have increased in volume, complexity and significance;

WHEREAS, salary adjustments for personnel are necessary to maximize efficiency, to improve the quality of its personnel, and to maintain the effectiveness of the Office of the Solicitor General as the law office of the Government;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution, do hereby order and decree that:

SECTION 1. The provisions of existing laws to the contrary notwithstanding, the number of positions and the annual salaries of Solicitors and Trial Attorneys are hereby fixed as follows:

 
Positions
 
Salaries
 
   
 
  Six (6) Solicitors
P28,000.00
 
  Six (6) Solicitors
26,500.00
 
  Six (6) Solicitors
25,000.00
 
  Six (6) Solicitors
23,500.00
 
  Five (5) Solicitors
22,300.00
 
  Three (3) Solicitors
21,200.00
 
  Three (3) Solicitors
20,000.00
 
  Three (3) Solicitors
18,800.00
 
  Four (4) Solicitors
17,600.00
 
  Three (3) Trial Attorneys
14,000.00
 
  Three (3) Trial Attorneys
12,500.00
 
  Three (3) Trial Attorneys
11,000.00
 
  Three (3) Trial Attorneys
10,800.00
 
  Three (3) Trial Attorneys
9,600.00
 
  Two (2) Trial Attorneys
8,400.00
 

 

SEC. 2. The Office of the Solicitor General shall be exempt from the coverage and the classification and compensation plans of the Wage and Position Classification Office (WAPCO). The salaries of members of its Administrative Staff are hereby restored to the same amounts provided under Republic Act No. 6458.

SEC. 3. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated such sums as may be necessary to pay the salary increases provided for in Section 1 hereof and thereafter the funds needed to implement the provisions of this Decree shall be in the annual Appropriation Act.

SEC. 4. The salary increases herein provided shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 25th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-five.

   
   
 
(Sgd.)
  FERDINAND E. MARCOS
 
President of the Philippines
   
   

 

By the President:  
     

(Sgd.)
  ALEJANDRO MELCHOR  


  Executive Secretary    
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