EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 780 January 1, 1982
AUTHORIZING INCREASES IN SALARY TO SOLICITORS AND
LAWYERS IN THE OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR GENERAL
WHEREAS, P.D. No. 1726 provides for a new schedule of salaries for lawyers in the Ministry of Justice and its bureau and offices; and
WHEREAS, position in the Office of the Solicitor General did not come under the operation of said Decree; and
WHEREAS, there is a close relationship between the qualification requirements for Fiscals, State Prosecutors, State Counsels in the Ministry of Justice and Solicitors in the Office of the Solicitor General; and
WHEREAS, there is a need to align the salaries of Solicitors and lawyers in the Office of the Solicitor General with lawyers in the Ministry of Justice in the light of new salary rates under P.D. No. 1726;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order and direct:
Sec. 1. The salaries of Solicitors and Trial Attorneys of the Office of the Solicitor General shall be in accordance with the following rates:
|
No. of Positions |
Title |
Salary Rate |
|
10 |
Assistant Solicitor General |
P55,536 |
|
10 |
Solicitor VI |
52,848 |
|
10 |
Solicitor V |
50,292 |
|
10 |
Solicitor IV |
47,856 |
|
10 |
Solicitor III |
43,332 |
|
10 |
Solicitor II |
41,232 |
|
10 |
Solicitor I |
37,344 |
|
7 |
Trial Attorney |
32,184 |
|
7 |
Trial Attorney |
30,624 |
|
6 |
Trial Attorney |
29,148 |
Sec. 2. Funds needed to implement this Order shall be drawn from salary lapses and savings of the Office of the Solicitor General. Any further augmentation shall come from the Salary Adjustment Fund in the CY 1981 General Appropriations Act and from budgetary reserves. Funds intended to carry out this Order for succeeding fiscal years shall be incorporated in the annual appropriations of the Office of the Solicitor General.
Sec. 3. The rules and regulations necessary to carry out this Order shall be formulated and issued by the Ministry of the Budget.
Sec. 4. This Order shall take effect January 1, 1982.
Done in the City of Manila, this 9th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-two.
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