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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 247 July 24, 1987

REORGANIZING THE PHILIPPINE OVERSEAS EMPLOYMENT ADMINISTRATION AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 5 (1986), provides that the necessary and proper changes in the organizational and functional structures of the government, its agencies and instrumentalities need to be effected to promote efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of public services;

WHEREAS, it has become necessary to institute changes in the functional structure of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration in order to enhance its effectiveness in responding to changing market and economic conditions and to the call of the national development plan for the strengthening of the worker protection and regulation components of the overseas employment program; and

WHEREAS, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has to systematize its operations by rationalizing its functions, structure and organization to make it more efficient in undertaking its principal function of formulating and implementing a systematic program for promoting and monitoring the overseas employment of Filipino workers and for protecting their rights to fair and equitable employment practices, and in order that it may respond more effectively to the new demands for more meaningful welfare services to workers, better protection of their rights, more efficient adjudication of cases and more efficient manpower delivery system.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the sovereign will of the Filipino people and the Constitution, do hereby order:

(SECTIONS 1 to 12)

Sec. 13. Effectivity. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

APPROVED in the City of Manila, Philippines, this 24th day of July in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.

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